Words similar to badly

Example sentences for: badly

How can you use “badly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Since any actual military engagement is not going to involve every last wing nut in the Pentagon's "miscellaneous screws" jar, you are well positioned to say "I told you so" if things go badly.
We know how badly he needs a pat on the back.
Then Texaco can treat its own black employees badly, but no worse than the industry standard; if conditions at Texaco get worse than conditions at Exxon and Mobil, all Texaco's black employees will move to Exxon or Mobil.
Ronald Reagan looked at home with a chain saw, although he badly gashed his leg attempting to read a book for some photographers.
The sentence Napoleon badly/ignominiously defeated the Austrians and Russians is called wrong on the grounds that badly and ignominiously (like heavily, thoroughly, utterly) can be used only with a passive verb; but we can say Napoleon defeated the Austrians and Russians badly or ignominiously at Austerlitz without violating natural English idiom.