Badly
Illegally
Illegally adverb - In an illegal manner.
Badly and illegally are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Illegally".
Nearby Words: illegal, illegality
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The boyfriend was taken advantage of by a pharmaceutical corporation, illegally experimented on, and basically was broken so badly he felt he could never go home again.
Source: Adult Fear / Literature -
He illegally orders Hooli's software to eliminate results that speak badly of the company, which Richard gets wind of just in time to feed it to a reporter in place of an article that would have wrecked his own career.
Source: Series / Silicon Valley
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