Badly and Sore

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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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Sore and badly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sore" instead the word "Badly" as an adjective or an adverb.

Nearby Word: bad

Sore adverb - To a great degree.

Usage example: I was sore afraid we'd never make it home

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Badly and sore are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Sore".

Nearby Words: soreness, soring, sored

As the human transmutation incident is a particular sore point with Ed, things turn out quite badly for Tucker.

Source: Break Them by Talking
Sore Loser: Some wrestlers have responded to getting eliminated very badly: One of the first examples (and a rare non-heel one) of this is Hulk Hogan of all people; both times he was eliminated in a Rumble, he immediately screwed the person who eliminated him out of winning too.

Source: Wrestling / Royal Rumble
When Saki approaches Teru after the match, and Teru beats her up badly enough to send her to the hospital (doing the same to Nodoka when she tries to help Saki), the people covering the tournament assume that it's because Teru is a Sore Loser.

Source: Disproportionate Retribution / Fan Works

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