Mad and Poorly

Mad

Mad adjective - Feeling or showing anger.

Poorly and mad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poorly" instead an adjective "Mad".

Nearby Words: madness, madly

Poorly

Poorly adjective - Temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body.

Mad and poorly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mad" instead an adjective "Poorly".

Nearby Words: poor, poorness

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • In MAD, during the parody of Fatal Attraction, the dog serves as this, objecting to his owner's immoral and poorly thought out actions.
  • Faux to Guide Though the earliest issues of MAD sold poorly, by 1954 it had attracted a slew of imitators (one of them, Panic, published by EC Comics, MAD's own publisher).
    Source: Faux to Guide
  • His first movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, actually received decent reviews, but his later movies have been poorly received by critics but made quite a bit of money.
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