Badly
Badly adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: blood donors are badly needed this time of year
Exceptionally and badly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Exceptionally" instead an adverb "Badly".
Nearby Word: bad
Exceptionally
Exceptionally adverb - To an exceptional degree.
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Badly and exceptionally are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Exceptionally".
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The War of the Amazon set was badly underprinted making its foils exceptionally hard to collect.
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There's a minor character in Witcher Saga who offers us an interesting take on this trope: she was disfigured really badly, so after deciding there's nothing they can do with it, the healers just hid it under an exceptionally strong illusion.
Source: Magic Plastic Surgery -
But if a book is exceptionally badly written or convoluted, he plays this trope straight.
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