How To Use Badly In A Sentence
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I badly wanted the job, but knew that my age would probably tell against me.
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My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
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Equally badly behaved, but a little calmer and better informed, were the massive numbers from the labor unions.
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I used to break-dance really badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He judged the present situation badly.
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The passengers were badly shocked but unharmed.
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something went badly amiss in the preparations
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They will learn more about Churchill than from this diffuse, badly edited book.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were visiting homes and hospitals to see football fans who had been badly burnt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dress fitted badly and puckered at the waist.
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Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want someting. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.
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One woman's broken thigh bone had been badly set, leaving her left leg at least three inches shorter than her right.
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This sits badly with the Act assertion that all data be ‘obtained fairly’.
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A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the
White and Yellow
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the fire left her arm badly scarred
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The French navy, painfully rebuilt in the 1770s and 1780s, suffered badly from the effects of the French Revolution.
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I badly wanted to go on to see the monkey-puzzle forests at the foot of the Andes, to drive the cattle to high summer pasture.
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So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
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Both buildings were badly affected by the fire.
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By African standards, Ghana is not doing too badly.
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They spent their afternoons playing golf—extremely badly, I may add—around Loch Lomond.
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Wednesday's win was a pleasing, restorative result at a time when it was badly needed, but it would be delusive to read too much into it.
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It doesn't always work: Five years ago in the Alps she landed badly on a jump, breaking her pelvis and fracturing a vertebra.
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Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
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Contemporary drawings show that the cookhouse was badly cracked as was the barracks and one of the caponiers had completely detached itself.
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A cruiser and a destroyer, both badly hit, thus became the only survivors to escape.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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Following a fire in October 2000, the roofs were completely destroyed and all timber roof supports in the building were badly charred.
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This decade began badly for us.
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Mac put a heavy hand on her shoulder and pushed her aside to allow Jon to stoop in the doorway and lay a girlish kiss on the girl's badly rouged cheek.
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We talked earlier about the computer marketing firm that had badly botched one of its first major corporate sales.
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It's important to note how badly a script doctor was needed for The Singing Detective.
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The conflict was very fierce, and took place when the captain and I were at the xebeque, and before we could separate them four of them had fallen; two were killed, and the other two badly wounded.
The Privateersman
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She had been badly hurt in what police described as 'a savage attack'.
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The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
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I have long claimed that this conceivability is only apparent; some misguided philosophers think they can conceive of a zombie, but they are badly mistaken. nullasalus:
Blurring the Line
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Some big cities are really badly performing.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had now no clothes except what I stood up in — the coat badly out at the elbow — an overcoat, moderately pawnable, and one spare shirt.
Down and Out in Paris and London
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My paper was so badly reviewed that I was compelled to withdraw the paper.
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When Rebecca emerged into the sunlight, it was clear that something was badly wrong.
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Some of the prints were badly discoloured.
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The alpine skiing programme has been badly hit.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was badly hurt by the end of his marriage.
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But the police have also been accused of badly botching the investigation.
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Next beyond the barbershop, which is two doors beyond the general store and postoffice, was a little one-story building, weather-beaten and badly in need of paint.
Thankful's Inheritance
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A travel policy is vital to ensure sickness or an accident don't leave you badly in debt when you come home.
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In subsequently discussing my experience with others, I discovered I was not alone in my being treated very badly by the people at Morris.
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Dolphin added: "The only pledge that we would preserve is higher funding for international development, not only because it is a relatively small amount of spending (although it is) but in recognition of the urgency of providing more funds to low-income countries badly hit by a financial crisis not of their making.
Don't spare the NHS from cuts, says leftwing thinktank
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In a similar vein, while the weather was good news for some attractions - both paid-for and free - others were badly hit as both visitors and Scots headed outdoors.
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The team did not play as badly as the scoreline suggests.
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The Swedish immigrants were mainly from very poor rural areas Småland that were badly hit by tough years with bad havest.
Are Low-Skilled Americans the Master Race?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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They drifted off course and they lost their moral compass so badly it was always going to come to a head.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
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I was worried that I might not have handled it very well and slept badly.
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It is not only the bank robbers who treat the victims badly.
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He was affected badly by the barracking that he got from the crowd.
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His sense of humour was a useful buffer when things were going badly for him.
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He was struggling so badly before that now, living in a shelter, he appears to be "blossoming," she said.
The grinding reality of growing up poor
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However, it is two hours into the program and a recurring trend is that these people are hurting as badly as any progressives are in this country.
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Pawn ministry is traumatic the ability when causing cerebrum to be damaged badly may be caused gawkish .
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Rob did very badly in the History exam.
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I'm surprised at you behaving so badly - you ought to/should know better.
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And more than one-in-four children who took part in the survey also said they worried about being badly treated at home, even if they were confiding their worries to parents.
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Siamese twins died Friday night due to a complex congenital cardiopathy (a badly formed heart that both shared and which was incapable of pumping blood), according to Radio Programas del
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When, for example, Karl and I made the simulation more realistic and allowed for mutations, or mistakes in an evolving population of players, then we saw cooperation and defection wax and wane over time, as those with a good reputation are actually undermined by indiscriminate altruists who help anyone, no matter how well or badly the latter have behaved in the past.
SuperCooperators
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BELGRADE Reuters – A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theater to settle their dispute outside, the daily Politika reported Wednesday.
Surgeons leave surgery for a fist fight | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time
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The sane people of the world saw it purely as a piece of comic genius, and showered awards upon the badly-drawn comedy.
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He was sweating really badly so we just thought it was flu.
Times, Sunday Times
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Children who behave badly are rejecting adult values.
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The cat purred with magnificent indifference and left via the flap Arthur had fitted so badly they'd had to employ a carpenter to put things right.
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Some recent research into the causes of malignant melanoma in adults suggests that getting badly sunburned as a child might have something to do with it.
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It would make me feel good to know I had in someway helped ease you closer to whatever it is you want so badly.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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If an animal is badly injured, often the kindest thing to do is to destroy it painlessly.
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They wore chaps criss-crossed with scars from needle sharp cactus, their hats were badly weathered, having survived many suns, winds and rains.
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It's tempting to a snooze in the day if you slept badly the night before.
The Sun
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The producers wanted him to play a man behaving badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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My back was hurting badly and I was fainting, losing my senses.
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Lomax's car was badly damaged and had a smashed windscreen and two shredded tyres.
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His face was badly scarred by the fire.
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I turned up a slightly cynical, badly-dressed student and left three days later, after a short spell in Southampton nick, as the blazing-eyed, still badly-dressed eco-bore I am today.
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All this went a long way to restore my self-respect, badly jolted by the morning incident.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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There was a badly lit hallway with two fruit machines standing on either side like sentries.
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I couldn't tell how well or badly I was doing since it was like taking part in a game without knowing the rules.
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The Hoosiers have played their Division 1A opponents even on the scoreboard at 30.8 points scored and 31.0 allowed, but the Hoosiers have faced three bad teams in Western Kentucky, Akron, and Arkansas State and they've been badly outplayed from the line of scrimmage 5.9 yards per play to 7.2 yppl.
Jeff Ma: Bringing Down the Bookie: Week 7
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The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
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The average working week in Japan is 42.3 hours, compared with 41.6 in the UK, so they are not too badly off.
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Either they did not see what was happening, which is inexcusable, or the board was so badly structured that dissenting voices could be ignored.
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Two weeks later her badly decomposed body was washed ashore at Dead Man's Hole on the back side.
AMAGANSETT
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But the analogy to the price system is badly strained.
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One day my head was throbbing so badly, I could barely see.
Times, Sunday Times
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None of these characters is evil, none commits the transgression that precipitates the suicide, but all are driven, understandably yet horrifyingly, to behave in devious ways that wound others badly.
Cover to Cover
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He damaged his leg so badly in the accident that the bone was exposed.
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I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable.
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How badly affected would he be were he to fail for a second time?
Times, Sunday Times
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To claim that the All-Ireland champions performed badly on the day would do an injustice to the visitors' gritty performance.
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For Dodd to be struggling this badly in the polls is a very, very bad sign.
Connecticut Dem says time for Dodd to go
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It's a gamble that can backfire badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ward was clearly badly managed anyway - the idea of mixing genders in the alcoves made a lot of people very uncomfortable.
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The prison service is badly overstretched.
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Oil prices have slumped quite badly in recent months.
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Its usefulness will often justify a path which in theory may appear quite arbitrary or badly traced.
The Education of a Gardener
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Felicity sold hers to Uncle Alec's hired man -- and was badly cheated to boot, for he levanted shortly afterwards, taking the apples with him, having paid her only half her rightful due.
The Story Girl
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It's clear that he has badly miscalculated the mood of the people.
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Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed.
Ulysses
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Badly performed nose jobs can result in lumps where the cut surface of bone or cartilage pushes against the skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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I behaved badly yesterday and I am ashamed now.
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The incumbents often behave badly towards new entrants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behaving badly to those we love always makes us feel ashamed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jack took pellets in the right lung, liver, and back, and his left arm was again badly fractured.
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It was her first child and she had no medical treatment and had been haemorrhaging badly as a result of the birth.
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Fatigue was shown in their irritability, and they were jagging badly on too much coffee . . .
Daring Young Men
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His badly undermanned team played with heart but had no hope of matching the two great world powers of the game.
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Many people offered to donate blood and skin for the badly burnt worker.
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There is no financial penalty for behaving badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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They get into cycles of declaring their undying love but somehow it always ends up badly.
The Sun
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I don't feel the cold as badly as many people.
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Banking, finance and insurance have also been hit with nearly 3000 job losses and the distributive trade has also been badly affected with 2720 job losses.
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He takes in her dark brown hair, badly cut, and over pale face accentuated by a shocking slash of vibrant red mouth.
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In any event, the composer was badly shaken during this era, which probably hastened his death in 1950.
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The whole of his arm below the elbow was badly burnt.
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Faced by an overwhelmingly superior force, our badly depleted three divisions had barely escaped being bagged in the net of which the enemy had all but drawn the noose in a strategetic surrounding movement.
The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
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Some people may manage their finances badly and therefore have to go short of essentials.
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I haemorrhaged badly after the birth of all three of my sons.
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There is no financial penalty for behaving badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Badly chosen baby names can lead to low self-esteem, low education and more smoking: study Most people would rather be single than date someone with an 'unfortunate' name, research shows Amanda Mikelberg / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Think your name ruined your life?
NYDN Rss
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I'm not sure if it's the shipping, but our base was scratched pretty badly.
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He has overcome the problem he says many people encounter that of ending up in undemanding, badly-paid jobs.
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If this wasn't what she meant, then her speech was badly drafted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Be this as it may, when one has enjoyed for a certain length of time a plentitude of life a time comes when he can enjoy nothing; his impressibility gradually decreases, and the effects on each of his senses are badly arranged.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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Craig has always been very thin-skinned that way - he reacts very badly to criticism.
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It's been re-released with a badly needed new mastering job and three bonus tracks.
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They were badly hurt in the accident.
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This quote startlingly original novel unquote is both boring and badly written.
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The children's faces are badly out of focus in the photograph.
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People round here dress so badly - except you, Justin, " she hastened to add.
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He had wrenched his ankle badly from the force of the fall.
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He'd been so kind, offering shelter and protection and a friendship that she wanted very, very badly.
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Struggled badly at times, mixing poor clearances with an ability to keep danger at bay on his left flank.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every foreign journalist, every adversary, and every ally will be reading the tea leaves to make their own assessment how badly Obama was damaged by his party's loss of political and popular support, and either take it in stride, or dangerously miscalculate.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover
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He was limping badly and has a problem with his ankle and his knee.
The Sun
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It can be no coincidence that such universities perform relatively badly in the national student surveys.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was badly mauled by a lion.
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The newspapers have been amusing us with photographs of David Cameron and George Osborne on their summer breaks, above sarky little captions about how badly they're dressed.
Face it, we all look dire on holiday | Victoria Coren
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He's still conscious but he's fairly badly injured.
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He was invalided out of the army with a badly arthritic knee, exacerbated by his injuries.
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Those that need aid most are often so badly run that their leaders steal or squander it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The press treated them badly because they were slanderers whose stories did not check out.
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I noticed he'd cut his finger quite badly.
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His remark was well / badly timed, ie made at a suitable / an unsuitable moment.
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I did badly in the mock exam but passed the real thing.
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There are a lot of cheesy chat-up lines because they can hide behind the screen if it goes down badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our spirits, however, were much cheered by hearing that the sultan had received a letter from a seyyid at Meshed (probably the nice one who had been in India and had leprosy in his legs), telling him how very badly the sultan of Hagarein had behaved about us.
Southern Arabia
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It's music that forces people to react to it, and often react badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Low-paid workers will fare badly/well under this government.
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The restoration will also include work to the stonework of the north and south transepts, which are also crumbling badly.
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It was badly trashed, very, very badly trashed and I think it cost us about $40,000 with the damage that was done to the clinic.
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The roof is also leaking badly, window frames and guttering are rotting and the interior is in urgent need of redecoration.
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Then he damaged his shoulder so badly that specialists gave him little chance of riding again.
Times, Sunday Times
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This past year, as the piano has sat alone in the empty condo, I've felt badly for her.
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He has had his fingers burnt by deals that turned out badly.
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You can ill afford to criticize others when you behave so badly yourself.
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I thought he behaved very badly.
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Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want someting. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.
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She got badly spiked when one of the runners trod on her heel.
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He was badly injured and had to have 80 stitches in his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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He remained horribly disfigured and his speech was still badly affected.
The Sun
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Fortunately it isn't reflecting that badly on my mood.
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Such a badly presented exhibition invites criticism.
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It's badly equipped and badly made.
Times, Sunday Times
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This car in particular seemed to oversteer very badly.
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The vessel is badly damaged from amidships aft.
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But in more rural areas where there is a less diverse mix of people, those afraid of difference become vocal and treat fellow humans badly.
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After the massacre the local port was a scene of panic as people, mostly women, desperate to escape, fought their way up the gangplanks carrying their belongings and children onto badly maintained and overloaded ferries.
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'Your message re the krytron that provoked Hawkins's ire must have been badly handled.'
Santorini
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A few days later his badly beaten body was discovered on a roadside outside the city.
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Houses in Ireland are performing very badly in terms of energy usage; wastage is very high, and homes are badly insulated.
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Here are some examples to demonstrate how badly some people write resumes.
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Yes | No | Report from [email protected] wrote 1 year 6 days ago vegetarian is an old indian word that means hunts badly.
PETA announcement
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A badly sunburned face or back is extremely painful.
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Some writing travels badly in translation.
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They made a valiant attempt to avoid capture, but were forced to give themselves up because his friend was too badly injured to go on.
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Outworkers in the clothing industry are usually badly paid.
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No one suffered serious injuries, but one of the victims did complain of a badly upset stomach for more than 24 hours.
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He miscalculated badly when he underestimated the response of the international community to the invasion.
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D95R, badly damaged, needed a new oil pump and crankshaft.
Wild Ride
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As he read the poem out loud, he mangled the rhythm so badly that it scarcely made any sense.
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The dirty, white stone front of the shop, which stocked boxes of beer cans, was pitted with bullet holes, while a car and lorry parked in the protected courtyard outside were badly damaged in the attack.
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It bombed so badly he almost started drinking again.
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To this, the little boy reached down and rolled up his pant leg to reveal a badly twisted, crippled left leg supported by a big metal brace.
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Cormo's face and chest were badly swollen with a mass of beestings, and the Centaur was covered in half-dried black mud besides.
Tran Siberian
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The stairs were hard on my elbows and knees, and I skinned them all badly.
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These people know nothing about traveling through the Northland, and they badly mistreat Buck.
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The Left in two of its three forms in the UK is suffering badly from this whole tragic mess.
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Poets behave badly, a Famous Poet once wrote to me after I complained about how another poet sent me a flurry of angry emails for rejecting his sestina.
On leaving the scene
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She slept badly, awoke tired and pale.
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Both Mccullin and Page were badly wounded, the latter was left with a steel plate in his brain.
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The department was badly organized until she took charge .
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Many of the refugees were suffering badly from thirst.
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Birds of prey also suffered, with many sparrowhawks and kestrels too badly injured to survive, though many owls were successfully treated and released.
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When dealing with windows, remove all traces of rust and apply a neutralising agent to badly affected areas.
