Badly and Fine

Badly

Badly adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.
Usage example: I'm afraid you performed quite badly in our last rehearsal

Fine is an antonym for badly.

Nearby Word: bad

Fine

Fine adverb - In a satisfactory way.
Usage example: you did just fine on the stress test

Badly is an antonym for fine.

Nearby Words: fineness, finery, finely, fined, fining

Both words in one sentence

  • Anime / Transformers Energon Instead, Megatron comes alive just fine, with a new body, and proceeds to batter the living daylights out of Scorponok, tearing him apart so badly, he gets robotic swollen cheeks.
  • What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs? Keithiscoolbykeith used to be a fine example of a badly-drawn yet compellingly surreal webcomic.
  • My Skull Runneth Over After learning everything associated with fine dining, his skull runneth over badly — he cannot even remember his own name any more!
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