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Synonyms for poorly
ˈpʊər lipoor·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedyadverb
somewhat ill or prone to illness
"my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
Antonyms:
wellill, badly, poorlyadverb
(`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"
Synonyms:
mischievously, badly, severely, bad, disadvantageously, ill, gravely, naughtily, seriouslyAntonyms:
well
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "poorly":
badly, bad, weakly, evil, wrong, sparsely, little, insufficiently, hurt, inadequately, mal, thinly, ill, improperly, low
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#398 | little | |
#402 | low | |
#841 | bad | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#3009 | evil | |
#4320 | ill | |
#4587 | seriously | |
#5093 | hurt | |
#9700 | badly | |
#10329 | poorly | |
#11616 | severely | |
#14611 | mal | |
#21801 | weakly | |
#22598 | improperly | |
#32769 | thinly | |
#40402 | gravely | |
#43315 | sparsely | |
#50388 | inadequately | |
#53249 | insufficiently | |
#154702 | mischievously |
How to use poorly in a sentence?
It's embarrassing, it's shameful. It's a blight on the Kennedy Center itself and its only going to continue aging poorly.
We need to celebrate the effort and endeavor, i don't think there was anything they did poorly execution-wise.
This has been poorly handled and a lot of it could have been eliminated, i can't help but think that that's going to be a big thing in this election. It affected people's lives and it didn't have to be this way.
The president's angry facial expressions and raised voice didn't match the content of his speech. His words were offensive—praising himself for the 'biggest airlift in history'—and his body language and vocals told the true story: That this president was trying to defend the unforgiveable, the speech was poorly written because the goal of it was to take blame off the person, the commander-in-chief, and instead blame the Americans who were told the Taliban would never take control.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER The United States largest employer, Walmart -- its latest sales were not down, but up. It revised its profit forecast not down, but up. Macroeconomic Advisors, Macroeconomic Advisors, just revised its economic growth projections -- no, not down, but up. And the Atlanta Fed just revised its economic growth projections -- again, not down, but up. In the real economy, the President Trump administrations pro-enterprise agenda is working. Lower taxes and less regulation gave businesses the confidence to invest. That means more innovation and higher worker productivity. That means more jobs are created, and workers are paid more because theyre producing more. The latest jobs report saw 164,000 jobs added in July, bringing the labor force to 163.4 million - a record high. With President President Trump, we have the lowest unemployment for 50 years, and the lowest on record for African-American and Hispanic workers. And just published -- the lowest summer youth unemployment in 53 years. Yes, the lowest since 1966. On workers pay, new data the other week showed that earnings rose 4.5 percentin 2017 and 5 percentin 2018, even higher than previously reported - and miles ahead of inflation. While President Trump pray for a recession and Wall Street plays around with the fake economy, the real economy is booming. So is everything just fine and dandy, with nothing to worry about. Can President President Trump and President Trump team just sit back and ride the economic wave all the way to reelection next year ? Not at all. Theres no question that the rest of the world is doing poorly. China, Germany and the UK -- their economies are all heading in the wrong direction. So what should President Trump do to keep our economy moving ahead ? Its no use just yelling at the Fed -- theres a limit to what they can do. But there are two big things the president can do, on his own initiative, without Congress or anyone else. First is something we told you about in June, a positive and practical idea from Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform.Get rid of the tax on inflation, and youll see trillions of dollars redeployed to highest and best use.
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