Badly and Violently

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Badly adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.

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

Nearby Word: bad

Violently adverb - In a violent manner.

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Badly and violently are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Violently".

Nearby Words: violent, violence

Mikhail frequently sets himself up as a Dark Messiah of desperate mutants or others that tends to end violently and badly, which brings him into conflict with the X-Men, mostly out of a desire to use his vast mutant powers for good, but his insanity tends to cause this to backfire.

Source: Characters / X Men Rogues Gallery M To Z
There's a slim chance of turning into a Necromutant, a large chance of violently exploding, equally large chance of simply dropping dead and, if things go particularly badly, a slim chance of dropping dead so hard that your army's commander feels it and loses a hit point.

Source: Tabletop Game / Mutant Chronicles
If you choose to react violently to being ignored, you are set upon and badly beaten by security guards and banned from the store.

Source: Moral Event Horizon / Video Games

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