Badly
Badly adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.
Usage example: I'm afraid you performed quite badly in our last rehearsal
Horrendously and badly are semantically related in awfully topic. In some cases you can use "Horrendously" instead an adverb "Badly", when it comes to topics like terribly, horribly.
Nearby Word: bad
Horrendously
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- greatly and badly
- greatly and horrendously
- bad and badly
- bad and horrendously
- poorly and badly
- poorly and horrendously
- severely and badly
- severely and horrendously
- intensely and badly
- intensely and horrendously
- awfully and badly
- awfully and horrendously
- exceedingly and badly
- exceedingly and horrendously
Both words in one sentence
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Grand Theft Auto V's Self Radio added in the PC version is badly wrecked by the game's horrendously compressed audio.
Source: Loudness War -
Though such systems often backfire horrendously — people who happen to have a lot of allies can do whatever they want to other players and call their "friends" in to support them if it goes badly.
Source: Video Game Cruelty Punishment - After about 40 minutes of barely audible, badly written, badly edited, horrendously paced, confusing gibberish, A Certain Sacrifice, a film only known because it stars a pre-fame Madonna, turns into a Rape and Revenge movie out of nowhere.
Source: Shocking Swerve
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