Badly and Highly

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Badly adverb - To a great degree.

Usage example: blood donors are badly needed this time of year

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Highly and badly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Highly" instead an adverb "Badly".

Nearby Word: bad

Highly adverb - To a great degree.

Usage example: though she didn't win, she was highly satisfied with her personal results for the marathon

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Badly and highly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Highly".

Nearby Word: high

Furthermore, some students are still badly traumatized by what they've been through, and a few are even shown to be highly likely to commit suicide.

Source: Roleplay / Doubt Academy
In The Mole, the person playing the Mole purposely does badly at things at which they are highly skilled.

Source: Irony as She Is Cast
He is a genuinely highly trained psychologist, but his patients are often so badly messed up that the best he can manage is keeping them technically functional.

Source: The Shrink

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