Badly
Badly adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: blood donors are badly needed this time of year
Especially and badly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Especially" instead an adverb "Badly".
Nearby Word: bad
Especially
Especially adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: that university is especially strong in the sciences
Badly and especially are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Especially".
Nearby Word: especial
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, inexplicably, is really badly clipped, especially considering it's a folk album.
Source: Loudness War -
The few times she really sobers up, things tend to go badly, especially when she stops drinking in the last few episodes and everything goes to hell.
Source: Drunken Master - Except that it's really really hard to tell the difference between a true psychic dream and a hallucination, especially since most psychic dreams occur while characters are badly injured/feverish/etc.
Source: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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