Badly and Utterly

Badly

Badly adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: blood donors are badly needed this time of year

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

Nearby Word: bad

Utterly

Utterly adverb - To a full extent or degree.

Badly and utterly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Utterly".

Nearby Word: utter

Both words in one sentence

  • Graceful Loser Surprisingly enough, Tommyrod in Toriko, despite being an utterly monstrous villain who went into a Villainous Breakdown the first time he was badly injured and beaten, goes out this way when he is Killed Off for Real.
  • In a very real sense, the entire point of the first trilogy is the psychological redemption of an utterly broken man into someone who can live with himself — the first book setting him up as someone the audience very likely hates as a reflection of how badly he already hates himself.
  • Series / Stargate Atlantis Over the course of the series you realize how utterly careless and arrogant they were and how badly they screwed up both the Pegasus Galaxy and the Milky Way.
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