17 example sentences using badly.
Badly used in a sentence
Badly in a sentence as an adverb
Greg is a decent programmer, but he wants a new job badly. The problem is that nobody wants to use all that stuff that he knows.
When people walk into the room with a predetermined pitch that they're determined to stick to, things usually end badly.
Most [all, actually] of the women I've talked to about this are furious with her over how badly this portrays women. It sucks...
It can only end badly for the user. Facebook really needs a "don't be evil" moment, but I suspect it's too late, and I suspect that Zuckerberg simply doesn't think that way.
Making sacrifices to follow your dream does not give you the right to treat other people badly. You may be proud for the sacrifices you have made and the hard work you have put into your idea, but you deserve nothing for it.
When a community starts chastising newbies, that reflects badly on the community, not the newbies. > Down voting as a means of closing a question.
Once they have that reputation as being awesome it will stick around no matter how badly they perform after their initial success. What could he possibly be bringing to the table with Google?
Patents are just bad policy badly implemented at the moment, not over-optimized.
Those people, the people designing systems based on what they read in _Applied Cryptography_, badly need to understand crypto attacks before they put code based on their own crypto decisions into production.
The fact that so many applications perform computationally trivial things, but lag on such devices, has nothing to do with their processing power being low, and has everything to do with them being badly written. It takes a lot of effort to make an application lag on such a system.
Almost every time it's been preventable: the result of poor decisions, overcommitment, badly organised work, lack of reward, or just plain doing something I don't actually want to do. If you're feeling something like that, make "I might be doing this wrong" your first port of call, and only go to "I should work harder!"
Much more likely, in my view, is that the case becomes a testament to what happens when a party makes a high-stakes opportunistic legal grab that goes badly awry. What Larry Ellison set out to justify as Oracle's vindication has instead become Oracle's folly.
This is just like replay gain, broken codecs, badly recorded files or post-amplification and can lead to saturation. But this is exactly the same if you put your mp3 file through Audacity and increase it and play with WMP, or if you put a DirectShow filter that amplifies the volume after your codec output.
Likewise, I'm amazed at people who hate relational databases or joins, because they never bothered to learn SQL and how indexes work and how joins work, discover that their badly-written query is slow and CPU-hogging, and then blame relational databases, when it's really just their own lack of experience. Joins are good, people.
We didn't treat him as badly as we could have, as we've treated some other people, but I think trying to recast ourselves as "family" is incredibly disrespectful of his actual family who lost their child.
Not everyone reading the ad is identical to the person writing it, and a badly written job ad can easily send the message "this company isn't for you" to a large number of skilled potential applicants. This applies not just to categories like gender or race, but even to personality types and personal interests.
It is almost like seeing one of those "fail" videos where a kid piledrives his friend off the roof into the backyard and both kids end up badly injured -- of course that was the end result, there was no reasonably plausible path from the starting point to any sort of non-failure ending.
Badly definitions
to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"
(`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan"
See also: poorly
evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is to act badly"
in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room"
See also: mischievously naughtily
with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly"
in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them"
See also: disadvantageously
unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake"