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In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

ting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.

To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.

To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] Ascham.

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly. Shak. It went evil with his house. 1 Chron. vii. 23. The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. Deut. xxvi. 6.

isplacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p.p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

r of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. A suit of frayed magnificience. tennyson.

to grief, to meet with calamity, accident, defeat, ruin, etc., causing grief; to turn out badly. [Colloq.]

An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.

In a ill manner; badly; weakly. How ill this taper burns! Shak. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

Misapplied; treated badly.

Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular. "Carol incondite rhymes." J. Philips.

To create badly or amiss.

The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.

To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [Obs.] Shak.

To rule badly; to misgovern.

To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome. [Obs.] Chaucer.