Badly and Truly

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Badly adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.

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

Nearby Word: bad

Truly adverb - Not merely this but also.

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Badly and truly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Truly".

Nearby Word: truism

And it always ends badly for the gloater, who really ought to wait until it's truly over.

Source: Manga / Akagi
They usually want in the real world badly, to experience what it feels like to truly exist.

Source: Tabletop Game / The Whispering Vault
In truly extreme cases, even the most popular or powerful of these monsters suffer just as badly as everyone else.

Source: Crapsack World

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