badlyadv.adj.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 11905 (MED) So longe hom spedde baddeliche þat hii miȝte as wel blinne.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. iii. 2 Iohn. How goes the day with vs?.. Hub. Badly I feare. View more context for this quotation

1752 F. Cheneau True French Master 40 Mal à propos, very badly, unluckily.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 269 On meagre days the Roman catholics here fare very badly.

1850 R. Bell Ladder of Gold III. vi. vi. 260 Should this accident end badly, my pride will be rebuked, and turned to dust!

1883 Law Times 20 Oct. 407/2 A great improvement upon the former rules..which worked badly.

1934 C. P. Snow Search iii. v. 269 Things were going badly.

1972 M. Lavin Memory & Other Stories 173 It augured badly for his work when he was aware of the weather.

1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) iv. 68 Years later, when his life was going badly, he came to see work as the only consolation for persisting in the world.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §436 Selden..been causes ybroght to good ende, whan they been baddely bigonne.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 20 (MED) Badly or wykkydly: Male, inique.

?1576 A. Hall Let. touchyng Priuate Quarell sig. cij^v If you wil haue this a lawfull and ful parliament, I must pray god to kepe vs from many of them, bycause..the king was badlye murdred, within lesse than a yeare after.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xx. sig. Bb8 Badly-diligent ministers, who often cloyed our eares with her praises.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 218 Labouring their Mischiefes farre and neere, Whil'st Eccho and Narcissus are more badly busie heere.

a1616 J. Smith Expos. Creed (1632) xxi. 234 So howsoever men have lived wickedly, and done badly, yet let them not turne away from serving the Lord, but let them be desirous to please him.., and they shall finde mercy with God.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xiv. 94 He knew not, neither, he said, that he had so badly behav'd himself, as to deserve so very severe a rebuke.

1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. v. 92 After behaving as badly as possible all day, she sometimes came fondling to make it up at night.

1879 E. Davidson in Cassell's Techn. Educator I. 202/2 Indolent, irregular, and badly-conducted pupils.

1946 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xvi. 173 On his recent return to..the family seat in Sussex,..he accused his father's servants of having appropriated the linen, mislaid the stamp collection, and of generally behaving badly.

1992 Hist. Relig. 32 130 The souls of dead people who have lived badly in this world (given poison, inflicted harm, or not respected the ways of life prescribed in initiation).

2005 FQ July–Aug. 9/2 My 18-month-old son..is behaving more badly than a Newcastle midfielder on the razz in Ibiza.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. 15 For if they were so indeed it were not a Bad but a Good, because not a false but a true, and iust opinion to think so Badly as thou speakest of them.

a1677 T. Manton 190 Serm. on 119th Psalm (1681) xli. 259 It is Adultery, 'tis a breach of your conjugal vow... We cannot think badly enough of such a sin.

1766 D. Lloyd State-worthies I. 521 Over-boldly you spoke badly of my sovereign, whose sacred person here in this country I represent.

1894 A. Robertson Fra Paolo Sarpi viii. 161 We were able to pull down certain monuments raised against the Jesuits, who were then very badly regarded by the people.

1991 Twenty Twenty Spring 80/1 Many British theatres are..only a couple of badly received productions away from closure.

2007 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 3 Feb. 10 No one would have thought badly of him had he simply withdrawn from the world and concentrated on dealing with his own grief.

1672 R. Barclay W. Michel Unmasqued 45 It is badly inferred, That this thing ought to continue by Divine Authority.

1711 J. Strype Life M. Parker iii. vi. 207 Out of which Translation, Gregory Martin..picked several Words, as he pretended, badly translated, to serve the Protestants own Ends.

1775 W. Kenrick & J. Murdoch tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals II. 54 The dog without hair, known by the name of the Turkish dog, is badly named; since it is not in the temperate climates of Turkey that dogs lose their hair.

1840 London Med. Gaz. 2 Oct. 39/1 Another instance of induration of the pulmonary substance we have in what is badly called pulmonary apoplexy.

1898 Jewish Q. Rev. 10 522 The name of the renegade is badly transcribed היבטאולה and מלכא, instead of מלכאן.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1377 There should be no possibility of mixing up either of the rats with the water-vole (Arvicola amphibius )—badly called the ‘water-rat’.

1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 3 Mar. (2000) 344 A chapter—story from Luke's novel arrived, badly typed, no margins, scrawled corrections, & badly proofread.

2002 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 122 852/2 The chapter on movie subtitling includes many humorous examples of badly translated English.

1813 M. Leadbeater Cottage Dialogues among Irish Peasantry II. xliv. 210 [He] returned thanks that it was not his wife that died of the fever she was just rising up from, though it was he that badly wanted the work of that horse.

1820 B. R. Haydon 14 July in J. Keats Lett. 509 Have you done with Chapman's Homer? I want it very badly at this moment; will you let the bearer have it, as well as let me know how you are?

1861 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 20 Aug. 393/1 One fancies they will not be very badly missed considering they are very small.

1889 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 72 British Regiments were wanted—badly wanted—at the Front.

1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 8 His blond hair, badly in need of a cut, clings in a limp part to his skull.

1979 D. Gisselquist Oil Prices & Trade Deficits ii. 37 If West Germany and Japan had not accumulated dollar balances they could not have run the large trade surpluses they so badly desired.

2002 Dreamwatch Sept. 40/1 I had a rabbit and I used to walk my rabbit around the house on a leash, because I wanted a dog so badly!

?1822 J. H. Payne Love in Humble Life 22 Zounds! he don't take it so badly.

1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte III. xlviii. 223 His face was angry and wretched... He was more in love than he had ever been before, and he was taking it badly.

1928 C. Whitaker-Wilson Franz Schubert xii. 177 Schubert received the news badly. He had been expecting it for the past forty-eight hours, but when it came it prostrated him.

1968 Lat. Amer. (Nexis) 8 Nov. 356 The news of the closures was taken badly by the other Lima newspapers.

1992 J. Meek Last Orders 37 I knocked over a cat..and mentioned it to the woman that ran the shop. And it was her cat, wasn't it. She took it really badly.

2008 Mirror (Nexis) 7 Feb. 49 You could also ask her to look out for him if he takes it badly.

1825 W. S. Cardell Story of Jack Halyard (ed. 3) iii. 30 When Mr Halyard came home, they told him what had been done. He felt badly, but did not say much.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxi. 266 It makes a man feel badly to see the faces around him bleaching into waxen paleness.

1936 Z. N. Hurston Let. 10 June in Life in Lett. (2002) 382 Of course I do not feel badly at paying $100 to have the letter circularized.

1976 A. Hayley Roots (1977) xxxvii. 167 Kunta felt badly for having wished sometimes that he might strike the man in the darkness for moaning so steadily in his pain.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Oct. v. 6/1 I feel badly that we would carry somebody [who is disabled] down airstairs in an office chair.

1860 Horticulturist Jan. 43 We can plainly perceive strong symptoms of the Park fever... New York is going through it kindly;..and Brooklyn at last has got it ‘badly’.

1870 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Aug. 199/2 The following specimen love letter was dropped in the streets by a young lady a few days ago. The writer has ‘got it badly’ and no mistake.

1921 W. J. Locke Mountebank xiii. 163 ‘She's got it rather badly,’ Charles murmured to me.

1969 D. Clark Nobody's Perfect v. 148 Take it from me he's got it badly. He couldn't even hear me mention your name without wanting to talk about you.

2007 Mt. Druitt–St Marys Standard (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Jan. 9 He got me into the music and things just blossomed from there. I got it really badly at age four when I saw G.I. Blues for the first time.

1654 H. More Let. 1 May in Conway Lett. (1992) ii. 96 As for the Physick..I took it 3 pills a day for 4 dayes together, and was something weake after it and looked badly [for] it, as they tell me.

1766 in Decisions Court of Session (Faculty of Advocates) (1777) IV. 81 I am taken badly, and know not but it may be death.

1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 259 I called upon the old duchess, who is ‘sorely badly’, as they say in Lincolnshire, with her old complaint.

1788 in M. F. G.-B. Giner & M. Montgomery Knaresborough Workhouse Daybk. (2003) 5 Wm Brown at Work half day Badly.

1811 J. Rogerson Diary in W. B. Crump Leeds Woollen Industry (1931) 112 Jos^h Barker lies very ill, he has been badly near a fortnight.

1821 S. T. Coleridge Let. 8 Jan. (1971) V. 133 This uncouth rise of the Thermometer,..with the dense Fog,..has..thrown me back into my badly way—Mr Gillman too is unwell.

1836 Times 25 Nov. 3/4 She was taken badly on the night previous to Halloween.

1855 J. E. Cooke Ellie iii. vi. 456 ‘But I am sorry to see you looking so pale and thin.’ ‘I don't feel badly, ma'am,’ says Lucia; ‘and Ellie has made me a good fire.’

1901 J. Prior Forest Folk 282 She's took very badly.

1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow ii. 65 ‘I want my mother.’..‘Ay, but she's badly.’

1966 A. E. Lindop I start Counting i. 18 Your Aunt Rene Tindall says she's been badly again.

1975 in T. Steel Life & Death of St Kilda (1977) vi. 109 What's wrong with you, are you badly?

2001 R. Hill Dialogues of Dead (2002) xl. 438 At a guess, I'd say that when poor old Phil took badly, Ambrose put himself in charge of sound effects.