Word Finder - poorly

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In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort.

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to live poorly

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With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage.

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to do poorly in business

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Meanly; without spirit.

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Without skill or merit.

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He plays tennis poorly.

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In a negative manner; with disapproval.

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I think poorly of them.

You have been but poorly taught.

The judges of all kinds are very poorly paid.

Hungary is poorly supplied with canals.

Owing to the slender resources of the Confederacy, the prison was frequently short of food, and even when this was sufficient in quantity it was of a poor quality and poorly prepared on account of the lack of cooking utensils.

The sessions are still too short, teachers are poorly paid and attendance is voluntary.

Lathum eyed him with poorly veiled amusement.

But the writer was very poorly remunerated.

Even the other authors above mentioned are but poorly represented, with the exception of Philodemus, of whom 26 different treatises have been recognized.

A poorly provided public library is open to the use of students.

Past-Deidre walked out and left me to clean up the mess, which I did poorly.

I handled things poorly.

It smelled of musty parchment pages that were cut in different sizes and poorly bound.

Palms are poorly represented in the sub-region and are of an Indo-Malayan type.

The olfactory organ is poorly developed, and it is still a question whether birds possess much power of smell; many are certainly devoid of it.

It contains figures of more than 280 birds, but very poorly executed.

Commerce and manufacture are poorly developed.

The island is mountainous and wooded, and completely shelters the harbour from easterly storms. The surroundings are highly picturesque and tropical in character, but the town itself is poorly built and unattractive.

Kecskemet is a poorly built and straggling town, situated in the extensive Kecskemet plain.

The state is poorly watered and covered with a scanty vegetation suitable for pasturage only.

Of Pizarro's early years hardly anything is known; but he appears to have been poorly cared for, and his education was neglected.

You haven't, yet, because protecting me --albeit poorly --is still your duty.

In addition, strain HA 5-1 was only poorly transmitted by aphids.

She also felt she was being treated poorly by director Busby Berkley.

If you are poorly nourished, it will show in your skin.

Although the pathway for lignin biosynthesis was outlined many years ago, important basic features are still poorly understood.

Also for use with nursing females and poorly animals as a high energy food, for baby chinchillas being weaned.

Once again the gas chromatograms were very poorly resolved, presumably a result of the polymer present.

John Arnold was the first to mass produce chronometers, tho his first three performed poorly on Cook's second voyage.

Basically this involves a lot of running around the poorly drawn cityscape gunning down or beating up various members of the populace.

So poorly sick that about 5 miles up the road it gave a clunk and started screeching at us.

It's idiotic, poorly done, not funny, boring or in plain words - utter crap.

He has in the past tried to destroy English cricket by writing a poorly thought out report on the future of English cricket.

Larvae which consume high levels of the pollen do grow poorly and have a higher death rate.

Unit 1852 comprises unoriented heterogeneous fill with aggregates of poorly prepared building materials and anthropogenic debris.

Increased plasma atrial natriuretic factor and reduced plasma renin in patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus.

Pathogenesis is poorly understood, it is important to exclude diabetes mellitus, anemia and perhaps immunosuppression.

However, none of these patients had a poorly differentiated tumor.

Mostly they were poorly educated, or not educated at all.

Is the dancing poorly understood etiology in order to.

It dries poorly in cold damp conditions, so external painting needs to be done between April and September.

The transduction of mechanical stimuli into afferent neuronal firing is still poorly understood.

I have seen numerous examples of people cycling round wearing poorly fitted helmets.

The fossil history of snakes is very poorly known, since snake skeletons are very delicate and do not fossilize easily.

Much thought to have more professional says alan Gordon even more poorly.

Online dating sites are riddled with photos that are less than ideal - they are too dark, too grainy, or poorly cropped.

A few minutes later and an action replay as an Elvin cross was poorly cleared to Joz who again hit a right-footed half volley.

The reason for the death toll in the UK is our huge stock of poorly heated, energy inefficient homes.

This effect is fairly common if in addition the starting Hessian is also poorly defined.

Microscopically, the cortex is poorly organized; it has four primitive layers and diffuse neuronal heterotopia.

We know that poorly off households are less likely to have home computers than comfortably off homes.