badlybad‧ly /ˈbædli/ ●●● S3 W3 adverb (comparative worse /wɜːs $ wɜːrs/, superlative worst /wɜːst $ wɜːrst/) 
The company has been very badly managed. The novel was translated badly into English. badly made furniture Rob did very badly in the History exam.2to a great or serious degree: He’s been limping badly ever since the skiing accident. We badly wanted to help, but there was nothing we could do. He was beaten so badly that his brother didn’t recognize him. The school is badly in need of (=very much needs) some new computers. Things started to go badly wrong (=go wrong in a serious way) for Eric after he lost his job.3think badly of somebody/something to have a bad opinion of someone or something: I’m sure they won’t think badly of you if you tell them you need some help.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2adjectivesbadly damaged· Both cars were badly damaged in the accident.badly hurt/injured/wounded· Fortunately no one was badly hurt.badly affected· Albania was badly affected by industrial unrest.badly hit (=be badly affected)· Businesses have been badly hit by the economic slowdown.badly shaken (=be very upset or frightened)· Both boys were badly shaken by the incident.verbswant something badly· Caroline wanted the job badly.miss somebody badly (=feel very sad because you are not with someone you love)· Lucy was missing Gary badly.suffer badly· The town suffered badly during the last war.phrasesbe badly in need of something (=need something very much)· He felt badly in need of a cup of coffee.go badly wrong (=go wrong in a serious way)· Their election campaign had gone badly wrong.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a badly written story
- Adams admitted that he had played badly.
- Did you sprain it badly?
- It's often taught very badly.
- It was badly damaged in the storm.
- Lorna speaks Spanish so badly that no one in our class can understand her.
- She wanted to go so badly.
- The company had been badly managed from the start.
- The refugees badly need food and clean water.
- But all women here are treated badly.
- Grammar and spelling have never been so badly neglected.
- In the event the poll was countermanded, but the affair reflected badly on the government and the Janata Dal.
- Once again she suffered badly from morning-sickness although it wasn't as bad as the first time.
- One of the missionaries has been badly beaten and stabbed.
- Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted.
- Was it Dominic's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly?
- We talked earlier about the computer marketing firm that had badly botched one of its first major corporate sales.
Longman Language Activatorproducts that are badly made or of bad quality
poor quality products have been made badly: · Poor quality housing often leads to health problems.be of poor quality: · Investigators believe the bridge collapsed because the concrete was of poor quality.
low-quality products have been made badly: · It's not worth building with low-quality materials just to save money.· The company wants to change its image as a producer of low-cost, low-quality clothes.
made without care or skill: · Her clothes looked cheap and badly made.
cheap furniture, jewellery, clothes etc look unattractive and badly made, and seem to have been produced using low quality materials: · The room was depressing, with dim light and cheap furniture.· Hungry-looking men in cheap suits hung around the streets all day.
badly and cheaply made, using low quality materials: · You have a right to return any shoddy goods you might buy.shoddily made: · Police officials blamed the deaths on the shoddily made apartment building.
inferior products are not as good as other similar ones because they have been cheaply and badly made: · Consumers buy foreign goods because they believe that British-made goods are inferior.· I want the best -- I don't want some inferior model that's going to break down the first time I use it.
words for describing a bad child a child who is naughty behaves badly, for example by being rude or by doing things that are not allowed: · We've been looking for you everywhere, you naughty boy!· I don't believe in hitting children, no matter how naughty they've been.
a badly behaved child behaves badly and causes a lot of trouble: · Two or three badly behaved children are causing all the problems in the class.
spoken used especially to speak angrily to a child who has done something bad: · You've been a bad girl -- you know you're not allowed in my room when I'm not there.
a child who is mischievous behaves badly, but in a way that makes people laugh rather than making them angry: · She was a mischievous little girl who was always playing tricks on people.
also spoilt British children who are spoiled or spoilt behave badly because their parents always let them do what they want and have what they want: · You're a spoilt, ungrateful little girl!· Those kids are definitely spoiled - they need to learn some manners.
informal a child that you do not like, who behaves badly and is rude: · The school is full of rich brats.spoiled/spoilt brat (=a child who behaves badly because they have always been allowed to do whatever they want): · Should I tell him his kid is a spoiled brat?
not good at doing something not able to do something well, for example a job, sport, or activity: · He's the worst driver I've ever seen.· Critics blame the students' poor test performances on bad teaching.bad at: · I was always really bad at French!bad at doing something: · I'm very bad at remembering people's names.
if you do something badly , you do it carelessly, not skilfully, or you do it in the wrong way: · Adams admitted that he had played badly.· The company had been badly managed from the start.· Lorna speaks Spanish so badly that no one in our class can understand her.
also not much good British especially spoken not able to do something well: not very good at: · I'm afraid I'm not very good at math.· I'm not much good at speeches but I'll do my best.not very good at doing something: · She's not very good at communicating with other people.· He has never been much good at dealing with people.not very well: · "Do you play the piano?" "Yes, but not very well."not very good as: · She's a nice person, but not much good as a boss.
spoken bad at a skill or activity: · I'm no good at tennis.· Cait freely admits that she's no good at anything except singing.no good at doing something: · Leo's no good at lying -- his face always turns red when he's not telling the truth.
not very good, especially not as good as other people who do the same thing: · She's a second-rate singer.· We spent the evening listening to third-rate writers read their poetry in a seedy nightclub.
not having much ability or skill in a particular activity or subject: · This is Boston's weakest team in years.· When managers' leadership skills are poor, productivity suffers.· I wouldn't trust her. She's always been a poor judge of character.weak/poor at science/history etc: · She's weak at mathematics, and this affects her physics results as well.
to think that someone or something is bad or morally wrong to think that someone or something is bad, morally wrong, or very stupid: · I could tell from my mother's face that she disapproved.disapprove of: · A lot of church leaders disapproved of the book when it was first published.disapprove of somebody doing something: · My friends disapprove of me smoking.strongly disapprove (=disapprove very much): · I strongly disapprove of any form of gambling.
to think that someone or something is bad, morally wrong, or very stupid: do not approve of: · His mother clearly did not approve of Sophie.do not approve of somebody doing something: · You know I don't approve of you smoking.
how you feel when you think someone's ideas, behaviour, or actions are bad or morally wrong: do something with disapproval: · She looked at our clothes with obvious disapproval.somebody's disapproval/the disapproval of somebody: · Peter was determined to go to art school, despite his parents' disapproval.
to think that something is morally wrong and should not happen: · A lot of people now think that killing animals for food is wrong.think it is wrong to do something: · I think it's wrong to hit a child, whatever the circumstances.
if a group of people frown on or upon a particular kind of behaviour, they think that it is not the right way to behave: · The people who went to church frowned on those who spent Sunday mornings in bed.· Romantic relationships between teachers and students are frowned upon by the college authorities.
to disapprove of someone's behaviour - use this especially about someone in authority or someone who could take action to stop the behaviour: · The school takes a very dim view of this behaviour.· The electorate took a dim view of the tax increase.
to think that a particular person or group of people has a bad character, so that you do not respect them: · I'm afraid I have a rather low opinion of Mr Evans.· He had a very low opinion of insurance salesmen.
to disapprove of someone because of a particular thing they have done: · I didn't want my parents or teachers to think badly of me.· Please, Harry, you mustn't think badly of me. I had no choice.
informal to strongly disapprove of a particular kind of behaviour, attitude, or idea: · I don't hold with racism. Never have, never will.· Many of the older generation simply don't hold with mixed marriages.
to do something in a careless or unskilful way · I think I did pretty badly in the exam today.· They packed the glass and china for us, but they did it very badly and a lot of stuff got broken.
informal to do something badly because you have made mistakes, often so that you do not get the result you wanted: · I've practiced all week, but I'm still afraid I'll mess up.mess something up: · Don't ask Terry to do it - she'll probably just mess it up.mess up something: · Danny messed up three plays and made us lose the game.
also make a hash of British informal to do something badly and make a lot of mistakes, especially when it is important that you do it well: · Let's be honest. Most people make a mess of handling money.· She picked herself up and started the dance again, determined not to make a hash of it this time.make a complete hash of something: · I made a complete hash of the interview - I don't stand a chance of getting the job.
informal to spoil something you are trying to do, by making stupid mistakes: · If you screw up too many times, they'll kick you off the team.screw something up: · I was so nervous about the driving test that I screwed the whole thing up.screw up something: · My audition was going really well until I screwed the last part up.
to do something badly, especially a job you have been asked to do: · Most people think the mayor is doing a pretty bad job.do a bad job of doing something: · He did such a bad job of labeling these envelopes I don't think I'll ask for his help again.
if an organization or someone in authority bungles what they are trying to do, they fail to do it successfully because of stupid or careless mistakes: · The plan seemed simple enough, but the CIA managed to bungle the operation.· Analysts agree that the company bungled its response to the crisis.
to do something badly, especially a practical job such as making or repairing something, as a result of being too careless or not having enough skill: · They were supposed to fix the roof, but they completely botched the job.botch something up: · We hired someone to fix the computer system, but he botched it up even more.botch up something: · I wouldn't take your car to that garage - they botch up the simplest jobs.
if someone who is in charge mismanages a system or planned piece of work, they do it badly because they did not organize and control it properly: · The whole project was seriously mismanaged from the beginning.· Many people accused the government of mismanaging the environment and indirectly causing the flooding.
informal to do something badly because you are not paying enough attention, especially when it is your turn to do something in a play or in a game: · I was so nervous that I fluffed my lines.· It should have been an easy catch, but he fluffed it.
British to do something less well than you could, in an examination, game etc: · My grandfather was very intelligent, but he never did himself justice at school.· There were a couple of good performances, but most of the players didn't really do themselves justice.
to have a bad effect · The drug can have a serious effect on the body's immune system.have a devastating/disastrous effect (=have an extremely bad effect) · The war is having a devastating effect on people's lives.
to have a bad effect on someone or something: · Late nights and lack of sleep can seriously affect your performance at work.· Rescue officials have gone to three villages badly affected by the earthquakes.
to have a bad effect on someone or something: · Changing schools too often can be bad for a child's social development.it's bad for somebody to do something: · I think it's bad for her to spend so much time worrying about him.
to have a serious and harmful effect on something or someone, especially after continuing for a long time: · Years of civil war and drought have taken their toll, and the population of the region is greatly reduced.take a toll/take its toll on: · Bad working conditions eventually take a toll on staff morale.
to have an important and permanent effect on something: · She was only here for a few months, but she certainly left her mark.leave a mark/leave its mark on: · The long dispute has left its mark on the mining industry.
to have a noticeable and often harmful effect on a person or on a situation: tell on: · The strain of living with her violent husband was telling on Judy.start/begin to tell: · The power of the mayor's cronies began to tell as the election drew closer.
to affect something in a way that harms it or makes it worse than it was before: · We need to be assured that the new development will not have a negative impact on the local environment.· Last year's attacks have continued to have a negative impact on the tourist industry this year.
when something is not organized well also disorganised British not arranged according to any kind of order or plan: · She gave a long disorganized speech that left everyone confused.totally/completely disorganized: · Her files were completely disorganized - she could never find anything she wanted.· a totally disorganized rescue effort
also badly organised British not well organized - use this about events or activities that are not successful, because they have not been planned well: · The festival was very badly organized - nobody seemed to know what they were doing.· There was widespread criticism that the relief operation was slow and badly organized.
a business or organization that is badly run produces bad results because it is badly managed or organized: · The company is not badly run, but it still has not made a profit.· Critics say that the mayor's office is badly run and corrupt.
extremely disorganized: · The city is a sprawling chaotic metropolis of some eight million residents.· Newscasts continued to broadcast images of the chaotic minutes after the shooting.· We flew on the day after Christmas and the situation at the airport was completely chaotic.
informal if a situation or event is a mess or a shambles , it is very badly organized or badly controlled, and nothing good or useful is being achieved: · The social security system in this country is a mess.a complete/hopeless etc mess: · The whole conference was a complete mess from start to finish.in a mess/shambles: · The prolonged war has left the nation's economy in a shambles.
if a group such as a political party is in disarray , it is disorganized and no longer effective, especially because the people who belong to it cannot agree with each other and cannot work together: · The defeated army retreated in disarray.in complete/total etc disarray: · The Democrats were in complete disarray after last year's disastrous elections.throw something into disarray (=make it become disorganized): · The chairman's resignation threw the organization into disarray.
to make no progress at all to not progress at all with a piece of work or activity: · The lawyers are trying to reach an agreement but so far no progress has been made.make no progress on: · Because of bad weather we made no progress on the house for the next three days.make no progress in: · Police were making no progress in their efforts to trace a man seen near the scene of the murder.make no progress with: · The city council have made no progress with their plans to rebuild the town hall.
informal to not progress at all, even though you have worked hard: · I feel as though I'm getting nowhere in this job.· Not surprisingly, the peace talks got nowhere.get nowhere with: · Don started to learn Arabic, but he was getting nowhere with it.get nowhere fast: · The project was eating up time and money and seemed to be getting nowhere fast.
if a piece of work or activity goes badly , it does not make progress or develop in the way you would like it to: · My essay isn't going very well. It's difficult to find any useful books on the subject.· Despite all the government's efforts, the war on drugs is going badly.
also go round in circles British to keep discussing the same problems without making any decisions or finding any answers: · This conversation's going around in circles again.· Every time we try to reach a decision, we end up going round in circles.
to stop developing or improving and often become worse: · Business here has stagnated compared with other wine-producing regions.· Everyone needs new challenges. Otherwise you just stagnate.
not enjoyable to read something that is unreadable is not enjoyable to read because it is not written in an interesting way: · The text was dense and unreadable.· The inclusion of so many figures and statistics makes the article virtually unreadable.
if something is badly written it is not enjoyable to read because the style of the writing is not good: · The book was so badly written that I didn't get further than the first chapter.· The report was inaccurate and badly written.
the wrong time or a bad time for something a time when you should not do something, because you will probably not be successful: · It's a case of the right idea at the wrong time.the wrong time to do something: · I think this is the wrong time to ask for a pay increase.· It seemed like the wrong time in my life to risk making yet another major change.
a time when something is not convenient or likely to be successful or that will cause problems: · I really would like to come, but I'm afraid this is a bad time.to do something: · If it's not a good time to talk, I can call back.
to happen at a time when something it not likely to be successful or that will cause problems: · These economic problems have come at the wrong time for the Republican Party.· The widening trade gap is coming at a bad time for the president.· The COE's resignation has not come at a good time for the company.
an expression meaning to be the wrong time to do something, use this especially when you are telling someone what they should do or how they should behave: be no time/not be the time for: · This is no time for that kind of talk. If you can't be decent, keep your mouth shut.· It's not the time for politeness and etiquette when there are lives at stake.be no time/not be the time to do something: · This was not the time to get angry, but Jodie couldn't help herself.
done at the wrong time so that it is likely to have an unsuccessful result: · Wilkins' outburst could not have been more ill-timed.· Resentment over the chairman's badly timed remarks is growing.· The gesture was sincere, but ill-timed.
formal a bad time, especially because it is inconvenient : · He had wanted to visit the troops over Christmas, but the general said it would be an inopportune time.· He always seems to say exactly the wrong thing at the most inopportune moment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2adjectives a badly-behaved class Smoking can severely damage your health. The flight was badly delayed because of fog. a badly designed office The car handles well, even on wet roads. Our ship was badly hit and sank within minutes. The company has been hard hit by the drop in consumer confidence. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. Two people have been critically injured in an accident. Grandpa was badly injured in the war. She had been let down badly in the past. More blood donors are urgently needed. a much needed boost to the local economy The school’s fairly well off for books these days. The island has been seriously polluted by a copper mine. Arnold’s perfectly proportioned body a beautifully proportioned room The hotel is well-run and extremely popular. He was badly shaken after the attack. The children were well shod and happy. Any new exercise program should start slowly. I was joking, but he took me seriously. Ben took the news very badly. Keith timed the pass well. a beautifully timed shot It was a difficult time, but eventually things turned out all right. Our education system is seriously underfunded. Financially, things have worked out well for us. The article is very well written.
· Both cars were badly damaged in the accident.
· Fortunately no one was badly hurt.
· Albania was badly affected by industrial unrest.
(=be badly affected)· Businesses have been badly hit by the economic slowdown.
(=be very upset or frightened)· Both boys were badly shaken by the incident.
verbs· Caroline wanted the job badly.
(=feel very sad because you are not with someone you love)· Lucy was missing Gary badly.
· The town suffered badly during the last war.
phrases (=need something very much)· He felt badly in need of a cup of coffee.
(=go wrong in a serious way)· Their election campaign had gone badly wrong.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a badly-behaved class· His face had been badly burned in the fire.
Smoking can severely damage your health. The flight was badly delayed because of fog. a badly designed office (=not well dressed)· The prime minister’s been criticized for being badly dressed.
British English, do well/badly on an exam American English:· Maria always did well in her exams at school.
· He did well in his examinations, and went on to study at MIT.
The car handles well, even on wet roads. Our ship was badly hit and sank within minutes. The company has been hard hit by the drop in consumer confidence. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. Two people have been critically injured in an accident. Grandpa was badly injured in the war. She had been let down badly in the past. More blood donors are urgently needed. a much needed boost to the local economy The school’s fairly well off for books these days.· For a long time I didn’t realise how badly-paid and overworked I was.
The island has been seriously polluted by a copper mine. Arnold’s perfectly proportioned body a beautifully proportioned room (=become annoyed, upset etc)· Do you react badly to criticism?
The hotel is well-run and extremely popular.· Her legs were badly scarred from a car accident.
(=be bought by a lot of people, or very few people) Anti-age creams always sell well.
Anti-age creams always sell well. (=be shaking a lot)· She had been crying, and was still shaking badly.
He was badly shaken after the attack. The children were well shod and happy.· Eleanor slept badly that night.
Any new exercise program should start slowly.· The town had suffered badly in the war.
I was joking, but he took me seriously. Ben took the news very badly. British English, do well/badly on a test American English· I didn’t do very well in the first part of the test.
· If things went well, we would double our money in five years.· How did things go?
Keith timed the pass well. a beautifully timed shot· Why did he treat me so badly?
It was a difficult time, but eventually things turned out all right. Our education system is seriously underfunded.· How badly do you want to win?
Financially, things have worked out well for us.· Her husband was seriously wounded in the attack.
The article is very well written.· The book is a thriller about a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· I was badly hurt, but I escaped and ran into the open country.· He sees a specialist tomorrow but the club are optimistic that he is not as badly hurt as first feared.· Can't you see the boy's badly hurt.· Penguins and seals have been found entangled in lengths of fishing net, some of them dead and many others badly hurt.· Then he saw, with relief, that she did not seem to be badly hurt.
· It was then that things had gone badly wrong.· By the late seventies many observers were concluding that something had gone badly wrong with initially well-motivated regulation.· How did things go so badly wrong so quickly?· If one accepts Levitt's analysis, Hoover got their marketing badly wrong.· When Rebecca emerged into the sunlight, it was clear that something was badly wrong.· Where on this conjoined road of shared experiences did the Prime Minister go so badly wrong and become a Tory?· That alone would have been enough to show something was badly wrong.· Since then, despite deep and life changing bonds being formed, some relationships have at times threatened to go badly wrong.
VERB· Local wildlife and agriculture are likely to be badly affected, environmentalists claim.· They may be so badly affected that their productivity drops.· The A-Forty-Eight Gloucester to Lydney road also badly affected, with some roads under two feet of water.· Seabirds were badly affected, with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die.· Fortunately, none of the family was too badly affected.· Even among those not so badly affected, ignorance about radiation produces powerful if sometimes irrational fear.· The Pang, Ver and Misbourne rivers, already suffering from over-abstraction, are badly affected.· He was believed to have been badly affected by the death of his wife last April.
· One of the missionaries has been badly beaten and stabbed.· Some critics of the government were badly beaten.· The women and the kids had been really badly beaten.· Thomas said Stern was beaten badly before other patrons of the bar stopped the attack.· Despite his wound Ahn still fights like a tiger, but is badly beaten and reeling.· Stephen often comes into school badly beaten.· The manager was shot in the leg and badly beaten up.· Further down a big Negro with a badly beaten face was shaking his head in the negative to every question asked him.
· Children who behave badly have had years to learn it.· Elsewhere, however, they behaved badly.· He accepted that it would be better to give her lots of love and attention for behaving well rather than for behaving badly.· They were all a bunch of spoiled, badly behaved film stars and he had no patience with any of them.· Yet, he counselled himself, he would not behave badly to her.· As for Auster, I am convinced that he behaved badly throughout.· Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.· Certainly, individuals may behave badly in any system.
· There was a little blood around his mouth and his eyes were badly bruised.· Trapped in an eddy Graham was retrieved from the barrel badly bruised, just before he almost died of suffocation.· Taylor was left badly bruised down his right side-from leg to shoulder-but escaped without permanent injuries.· He's badly bruised and has difficulty moving because of the stab wound to his back.· Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment.· His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt.· She's very shaken and her arms are badly bruised from where the men held her.· It's badly bruised - it may have been knocked by a car.
· The bodies of the victims were so badly burned they could not be counted.· A dozen others were left badly burned.· He wasn't that badly burned, but yeah, we checked.· Andrew Morton was badly burned when a spark from his welding-torch ignited a fuel line.· His Hurricane was shot down over Kent during the Battle of Britan and he was badly burned.· She probably saved me getting badly burned last week, yet I can't seem to find any gratitude towards her.· It is only in the fashion or fad field that the later comers get badly burned.· His body was so badly burned that his features were unrecognisable.
· That dreadful, badly cut shabby old coat and skirt!· It can cut badly, either flesh or other lines, even itself!
· The Millar Memorial, however, suffered a setback recently when a fire badly damaged their band hall.· He made several passes in the dark, shot down one B-24 and badly damaged a second.· It was badly damaged in an accident with car thieves.· Only four of the 77 passengers were slightly injured while escaping from the emergency exits but the aircraft was badly damaged.· A bedroom was badly damaged in the blaze, but arson is not suspected.· Car fire: A car was badly damaged by fire in West Witton, Wensleydale.· As many as 44 military planes and helicopters had been badly damaged, he acknowledged.· Many houses some distance from the blast which was close to the nearby police station were badly damaged.
· Antiquated equipment, badly designed ballot papers and inefficient vote-counting machinery contributed to the confusion.· Of course, if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands.
· During the Salazar dictatorship Madeira fared badly, particularly after the revolt in the island in 1931.· Compared with other nutritious foods, they fared badly.· The party fared badly at the election in April last year, and Craxi's name has appeared regularly in the inquiries.· Sangster has also fared badly through his involvement with Classic Thoroughbreds, a more recent venture.· Ethnic minority groupings, squatters and welfare rights workers, for example, usually fare badly in comparison with statusquo middle-class groups.
· He felt badly in need of a lie-down.· And we genuinely feel badly about this.· If he does, that means he is not good enough, and ought to feel badly.· Mother feels badly enough about your not going to church.· She said she later felt badly about calling 911, because she did not believe the matter needed police attention.· Well, I was feeling badly about all this.· They feel badly about their own school failures, and they know their problems are upsetting to their parents.· Lois felt badly that she was just now coming around to pay them a call.
· It was then that things had gone badly wrong.· Things go well, and then things go badly.· Then there is the question of what would happen if things went badly wrong.· In each, relationships between males and females tend to go badly.· At this stage, he said, it seems more likely that an attempted mugging went badly wrong.· If things go badly, I move on to the next thing and don't beat myself up 9.
· This process seems to have been handled badly, even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment.· In many cases, they are being handled badly by individual Support staff.
· Vodafone, which could also be badly hit by such a move, lost 10p to 504p.· The common view, backed up by hard evidence is that investment has been badly hit by the recession.· It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession.· The refrigeration industry will be the most badly hit.· The Tapies market was also badly hit.· So does Huddur - another badly hit town.· Motorists passing through Tewkesbury have been badly hit.
· He stepped on to the busy road and dragged badly injured Scott clear of the traffic.· Three years ago, the flocking process contributed to a fire at Malden Mills that badly injured several workers.· On one occasion William catapulted a lump of metal into a classroom full of pupils and a girl was quite badly injured.· It swerved off the road; killed three of the children; and badly injured Anne Maguire.· As a result of this Pyro and his daughter Nancy, who is standing beside him, are both badly injured.· Sefton was badly injured in the bomb blast in Hyde Park in nineteen eighty-two, but survived.· He worked at Anderson's factory and was badly injured when a kiln in which he was working collapsed.· The women were badly injured and two of them have been unable to return to work.
· Overall the Fuller could have been a very decent unit but the quality of finish badly lets it down.· In other matches skippers Kim Barnett and Mark Benson scored centuries but were badly let down by their team-mates.· Ferguson then said he would buy the title for the fans he had so badly let down.· Would Merymose, who had been so badly let down by Akhenaten himself, be able to feel any sympathy at all?
· Other visitors badly need to experience the royal lavatories: nobody knows where they are.· That this critically important service is badly needed for all media use goes without saying, and here is a model.· They badly needed to get off strong Sunday to erase that memory.· Start thinking Both sides spare themselves awkward questions that badly need to be answered.· Netcom also has the expertise of working with Internet customers that a telephone company would need badly to succeed in the business.· Forget the old adage about non-stop bicycling; the growing Community badly needs a decade of constitutional calm.· We badly need a demystification of the whole process.
· For years after Franco's rule, the army, badly paid and poorly equipped, was viewed with suspicion.
· But it reacted badly when he started on examples of government action to extend opportunity.· Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted.· Chances were she would react badly.· Do you react badly to criticism at work?· They don't like it too hot in summer and they react badly to over-watering.· Bird lovers reacted badly to earlier attempts to control the birds by poisoning them and removing nests.· Others began to react badly to various chemicals at about the time they developed candidiasis.
· But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded, badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade.· Man, that was a badly run operation.· We have a wonderful cache of these toys which we picked up in badly run stationers and toy shops.· I think the big national companies are badly run.
· Stephen saw that Douglas's hands were now shaking badly as he rubbed his face.· He was badly shaken and needed nine stitches in a head injury.· She had been badly shaken up and obviously distressed by the experience.· She had been crying, and was still shaking badly.· July 1944, failed although he was injured and undoubtedly badly shaken.· I was badly shaken by that pact.· An Arab ambassador said he was bruised, looked badly shaken and needed at least two weeks to recover.
· Louisa had slept badly and dreamed ill.· She slept badly and felt tired and depressed all day on Sunday even though she saw John briefly late in the evening.· She had slept badly, tossing and turning in the heat though the room had been cool enough.· Baldwin slept badly and briefly, uncertain about the wisdom or precision of his nocturnal negotiations.· He was sleeping badly, and he knew Celia was worried about him.· Needless to say, Jane slept badly: all her past life rose before her and condemned her present feelings.· She'd slept badly and felt numb with weariness and grief.· She slept badly, often waking to listen so that she would not his going in the morning.
· Malone started badly when new outhalf Simon Willis missed two penalties in the first ten minutes.· Paul started badly, bogeying the first.
· This is the total opposite to that experienced in the recession of the early 80s when our washroom service suffered badly.· Despite his warnings against escalating prematurely, Giap rashly leaped ahead in 1951 and suffered badly.· Connah's Quay was also affected with the Englefield Avenue suffering badly.· She was, however, suffering badly from shock.· Although I did not get this trouble with my machines, we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer.· If Richard, who suffers badly from asthma, had children, they might not get asthma.· The inter-urban trams suffered badly from unlicensed competition during the First World War.· Britains aerospace industries suffered badly when the cold war ended 4 years ago.
· Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed.· Will their children be treated badly in school?· He said he was not treated badly and that he was with other political prisoners.· We continually talk to ourselves about them, losing force all the time, and feel that we are very badly treated.· It was also beginning to vex Hal, who was treated badly by those wider than him.· Lovely, simple, and demure. Badly treated by her family and underappreciated.· He was treated badly by most of the people around him.· But all women here are treated badly.
· North, badly wanting to shut him up, tried to convince him it was otherwise.· He badly wanted to believe it.· Yet he badly wanted her to.· She had badly wanted to help Glover arrange his furniture when the time came for him to move into his new quarters.· Despite everything he had drunk already that night he badly wanted a brandy - and a large one at that.· As he badly wanted a job with Salomon Brothers, he knew exactly what I had to do.· Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post.· I badly wanted the job of fifth-grade safety monitor because Mrs Lambertson said it required supreme bravery.
· Both Mccullin and Page were badly wounded, the latter was left with a steel plate in his brain.· The Army surgeons at Long Binh operated immediately, despite all the badly wounded troops they had to attend to.· The animal is not badly wounded.· Badly wounded, Bourbonnais left for downriver some months later.· The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days.· Ricketts' battery was also hit, with Ricketts himself falling badly wounded.· Braque badly wounded, Léger gassed, Derain unscathed but reduced to decorating shell cases.· In the confusion his brother was badly wounded and two men were killed.
· I have never taken the Financial Times, finding it dull, badly written and vulgarly obsessed with money.· However, it was badly written and the long-term effects not thought through.· We would, of course, expect people to judge that the passages in which there was a conflict were badly written.· I could not tell whether she was smiling because the book amused her or because it was so badly written.· If they decided it was badly written they were asked to rewrite it.· The songs are often badly written.· And no one who writes badly ever succeeded in doing that.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► badly off for something► be badly cut up► go off well/badly etc► pass off well/badly etc
1in an unsatisfactory or unsuccessful way OPP well: - I could easily go in and request part-time work, and no one would think badly of me.
- Try not to think badly of me.
- Enjoyment of one's past job does not augur well for contentment in the role of housewife.
- In another development that does not augur well for transatlantic trade, Zoellick formally asked the U.S.
- It hardly augurs well - especially as none of them have won an international in Paris.
- Such potential augurs well for the 1990s.
- That augured well for the day.
- That, at least, augured well.
- This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.
- I think the men fared better than the women.
- It can be seen that, whilst all regions reflected the higher national unemployment rate, some regions fared better than others.
- It still fared better than the broader market.
- Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well.
- Not faring well, but resting.
- Obviously some clothiers fared better than others for there were quite a large number of bankruptcies between 1800 and 1840.
- The Bloomberg Indiana Index fared better than the benchmark Standard.
- There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well.
- It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.
- It seems to be going down a treat.
- From everything I saw and heard, he seemed to be very well organized in Iowa.
- In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.
- Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
- Others around us, and we ourselves, demand that we always be well organized and hopeful.
- Professionals are well organized, never seen by their victims, and they don't kill.
- The anti-London lobby, however, was well organized and had financial arguments to back its case.
- They can also be extraordinarily well organized and methodical, as well as deliberate and purposeful.
- After they had performed well in the role, these women made prestigious marriages, as does Cinderella.
- All this works only if Hanson's headquarters performs well in its non-executive role.
- Anthony Record, Britannia's chairman, said Actron had overcome its problems and was performing well.
- Is a nominated subcontractor really likely to perform better than the subcontractor's own subcontractor?
- Organizations need some degree of structure to perform well.
- This propellant combination performs well and permits a fairly compact vehicle design.
- To perform well a team needs a range of roles in its make-up.
- Yet these stocks performed well in both.
- Big Pit is about a male out of Blaenafon on the B4248, and is well signposted.
- There are well signposted walks, some of them offering views of the snow-topped Alps.
- I could easily go in and request part-time work, and no one would think badly of me.
- Try not to think badly of me.
- But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines.
- Each section is well thought-out and presented with a good number of diagrams and chromatograms.
- It is here that the value of well thought-out objectives can be seen.
- The system is a well thought-out one and seems to work well.
- He looks trim and well turned out in a new dark suit.
- Mr. Russ's deputy was Mr. Windust, then probably in his late thirties - always smart and well turned out.
The company has been very badly managed. The novel was translated badly into English. badly made furniture Rob did very badly in the History exam.2to a great or serious degree: He’s been limping badly ever since the skiing accident. We badly wanted to help, but there was nothing we could do. He was beaten so badly that his brother didn’t recognize him. The school is badly in need of (=very much needs) some new computers. Things started to go badly wrong (=go wrong in a serious way) for Eric after he lost his job.3think badly of somebody/something to have a bad opinion of someone or something: I’m sure they won’t think badly of you if you tell them you need some help.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2adjectivesbadly damaged· Both cars were badly damaged in the accident.badly hurt/injured/wounded· Fortunately no one was badly hurt.badly affected· Albania was badly affected by industrial unrest.badly hit (=be badly affected)· Businesses have been badly hit by the economic slowdown.badly shaken (=be very upset or frightened)· Both boys were badly shaken by the incident.verbswant something badly· Caroline wanted the job badly.miss somebody badly (=feel very sad because you are not with someone you love)· Lucy was missing Gary badly.suffer badly· The town suffered badly during the last war.phrasesbe badly in need of something (=need something very much)· He felt badly in need of a cup of coffee.go badly wrong (=go wrong in a serious way)· Their election campaign had gone badly wrong.