Badly
Badly adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.
Usage example: I'm afraid you performed quite badly in our last rehearsal
Insufficiently and badly are semantically related. in poorly topic. In some cases you can use "Insufficiently" instead an adverb "Badly".
Nearby Word: bad
Insufficiently
Insufficiently adverb - To an insufficient degree.
Badly and insufficiently are semantically related. You can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Insufficiently".
Nearby Words: insufficient, insufficiency
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- wrong and badly
- wrong and insufficiently
- ill and badly
- ill and insufficiently
- poorly and badly
- poorly and insufficiently
- carelessly and badly
- carelessly and insufficiently
- crudely and badly
- crudely and insufficiently
- wrongly and badly
- wrongly and insufficiently
- inadequately and badly
- inadequately and insufficiently
Both words in one sentence
- Ménage à 3 was felt by many fans to have suffered badly in volume 5 with too much coverage of the car-crash relationship between passive central character Gary and (insufficiently) cute psychotic Yuki.
Source: Seasonal Rot
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