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Poorly

Poorly | Poor | Poorest | Poorer | Poors

Poorly meaning

In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort. | With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage. | Meanly; without spirit.

Example sentences (20)

Poorly produced, poorly acted, contradicted the premise at every turn.

The plan will also encourage the conversion of poorly performing or poorly located employment sites to housing and protect the existing housing stock “as much as possible”.

A beautifully furnished room can still fall flat if it’s poorly lit. You could describe a room being poorly lit if there is too little light or if overhead pendants or spotlights are being used throughout the whole home.

And you decide to move in next door with the same exact stuff every week, because when you go into a store and you’re treated poorly, quite often, you get no one cares, or they treat you poorly.

How did this poorly written — and frankly, poorly acted — sketch not result in James playing for the Knicks?

The last group slept poorly for a 5-day workweek, then had the chance to sleep as long as they wanted on the weekend, and then had to sleep poorly again for two more days.

If it performs poorly — and who is to say what constitutes "poorly"?

The poorly framed and poorly lit photography, less an aesthetic choice than a lack of skill, works against many—but not all—of the discussions, undercutting their intensity and focus.

Those quotes do read like they could just be poorly translated—as poorly as you might expect from an outlet that can’t be bothered to spell an author’s name correctly, I suppose.

Commander Carrion stated that the contras consisted of insignificant bands of poorly armed and poorly organized members of Somoza's National Guard, who carried out uncoordinated border raids and rustled cattle (presumably for food).

Crews are generally poorly paid, poorly qualified and have to complete contracts of approximately 9 months before returning home on leave.

Most parish priests were sons of priests, were very poorly educated, and very poorly paid.

Piłsudski kept personal control of the army, but it was poorly equipped, poorly trained and had poor preparations in place for possible future conflicts.

Several western-style sewage treatment plants were built along the river, but they were poorly designed, poorly maintained and prone to shut down during the region's frequent power outages.

The most notorious regulations prohibiting Zhou from being honoured were the poorly observed and poorly enforced "five nos": no wearing black armbands, no mourning wreaths, no mourning halls, no memorial activities, and no handing out photos of Zhou.

The problem with these dictionaries was that they tended to be little more than poorly organised and poorly researched glossaries of "hard words": words that were technical, foreign, obscure or antiquated.

The term insoluble is often applied to poorly or very poorly soluble compounds.

When active, the average microwave oven is powerful enough to cause interference at close range with poorly shielded electromagnetic fields such as those found in mobile medical devices and poorly made consumer electronics.

Within a day, it became clear that the German army was capable of conducting offensive operations and that Red Army detachments, which were relatively small, poorly organized and poorly led, were no match for it.

According to Ajayi, journalists work round the clock but are poorly paid.