[
US
/ˈpuɹɫi/
]
[ UK /pˈɔːli/ ]
[ UK /pˈɔːli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
somewhat ill or prone to illness
feeling poorly
is unwell and can't come to work
feeling a bit indisposed today
my poor ailing grandmother
a sickly child
you look a little peaked
ADVERB
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(`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
he was ill prepared
he performed badly on the exam
ill-fitting clothes
the car runs badly
it ill befits a man to betray old friends
an ill-conceived plan
the team played poorly
How To Use poorly In A Sentence
- Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
- These have damaged an already poorly performing economy. The Sun
- With no requalifying for the Ryder Cup, no wild-card picks and no apparent animosity, the only thing to talk about has been how poorly many of the team members are playing.
- I must admit to being a biased Observor here, as I do relatively poorly with the math elements of Economics, and I have attempted a writing career of expressing Economics in nonmathematical terms. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- And so it is quite disappointing that this volume was very poorly edited.
- When he played poorly, which happened too often, the Bears lost, often in lopsided fashion. Around the Pac-10 Conference
- The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
- Loosely based on an old Montreal myth about a phantom ship and a shadowy captain (according to the poorly translated English press release), the maze is made up of five connected game zones.
- But dropsy was still poorly understood until Bright, who put it all together with diseased kidneys and albuminuria and distinguished dropsies of renal origin from other etiologies.
- One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes.