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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

bad·ly / ˈbadlē/ • adv. (worse / wərs/ , worst / wərst/ ) 1. in an unsatisfactory, inadequate, or unsuccessful way: a badly managed company the war was going badly. ∎ in an unfavorable way: try not to think badly of me. ∎ in an unacceptable or unpleasant way: she realized she was behaving rather badly. 2. to a great or serious degree; severely: the building was badly damaged by fire I wanted a baby so badly. • adj. inf. guilty or regretful: I felt badly about my unfriendliness of the previous evening.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

badly •Ali, alley, Allie, Ally, bally, dally, dilly-dally, farfalle, galley, Halley, mallee, Mexicali, pally, Raleigh, rally, reveille, sally, tally, valley •Chablis • brambly •badly, Bradley, Hadlee, madly, sadly •scraggly •dangly, gangly •crackly • Shankly • Bramley •Manley, manly, Osmanli, Stanley •slatternly •Langley, tangly •amply • Ashley •Attlee, fatly, patly •aptly • shilly-shally •Bali, barley, Cali, Carly, Charlie, Dali, Diwali, finale, gnarly, Gurkhali, Kali, Kigali, Mali, Marley, marly, Pali, parley, snarly, Somali, Svengali, tamale •Barclay, Berkeley, clerkly, sparkly •Darnley • ghastly • Hartley • Barnsley •blackguardly

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