Deficiently
Deficiently adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.
Usage example: the road to the mountain lodge is so deficiently marked that we had a terrible time finding it
Lousily and deficiently are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lousily" instead an adverb "Deficiently".
Nearby Words: deficient, deficiency
Lousily
Lousily adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.
Usage example: the new tennis racket did nothing for my game; I performed as lousily as ever
Deficiently and lousily are semantically related. You can use "Deficiently" instead an adverb "Lousily".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- bad and deficiently
- bad and lousily
- poorly and deficiently
- poorly and lousily
- badly and deficiently
- badly and lousily
- niggardly and deficiently
- niggardly and lousily
- insufficiently and deficiently
- insufficiently and lousily
- scantily and deficiently
- scantily and lousily
- awfully and deficiently
- awfully and lousily
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