Badly and Grossly

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Badly adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.

Usage example: I'm afraid you performed quite badly in our last rehearsal

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Grossly and badly are semantically related in severely topic. In some cases you can use "Grossly" instead an adverb "Badly".

Nearby Word: bad

Grossly adverb - In a gross manner.

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Badly and grossly are semantically related in severely topic. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Grossly".

Nearby Word: gross

A majority of them are grossly underpowered and badly built, ripe for having player parties kill them and steal their divine powers.

Source: Lord British Postulate
Ramsay summed it up best with "Giovanni, thank fuck I never visited your steak house." To make things worse, this results in him running out of filet, and Seth's attempt to carve a new one turned out badly when he grossly overcut it.

Source: Epic Fail / Hell's Kitchen
When doctors are treating people who have cut themselves badly and ask them to estimate how much blood they've lost, they take this trope into account, knowing that people who have bled into water are likely to grossly overestimate.

Source: Blood Is Squicker in Water

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