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badly

[bad-lee] / ˈbæd li /




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"I feel badly about and very disappointed in America," Dwight said.

From Barron's

Parts of the national park were badly damaged last summer by what landowners described as the biggest wildfire in Scottish history.

From BBC

“All I ever wanted was for you to get silly with me baby,” she sings about a relationship gone wrong, multi-tracking her vocals on the chorus to convey just how badly her feelings misled her.

From The Wall Street Journal

That could turn out very badly for some.

From The Wall Street Journal

Burden’s family legacy was fractured by infidelity and a laissez faire attitude, at least in the public sphere, toward men behaving badly.

From Los Angeles Times