Badly and Uselessly

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Badly adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.

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

Nearby Word: bad

Uselessly adverb - In a useless manner.

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Badly and uselessly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Uselessly".

Nearby Word: useless

No matter how badly he treated her, however, she continued to pine after him... uselessly, since he had his own hopeless crush on her friend Melody.

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But a badly made app can request wakelocks continuously, keeping your phone awake and drawing battery power uselessly.

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Its critics consider it to be overloaded with Fake Difficulty, opaque or badly-designed mechanics, and uselessly-weak characters.

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