Synonyms for poorly
ˈpʊər lipoor·ly

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1. ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedyadverb

   somewhat ill or prone to illness

   "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

   Antonyms:
   well

2. ill, badly, poorlyadverb

   (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well

   "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan"

   Synonyms:
   mischievously, badly, severely, bad, disadvantageously, ill, gravely, naughtily, seriously

   Antonyms:
   well

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1. List of paraphrases for "poorly":

   badly, bad, weakly, evil, wrong, sparsely, little, insufficiently, hurt, inadequately, mal, thinly, ill, improperly, low

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1. Nigel Sizer:

   There has been a lot of analysis and satellite data that shows there is so much land already cleared - a lot abandoned or very poorly used and managed that we could use to grow food on, we don't need to be clearing new forests to do this in Brazil.

2. Fiston Kamango:

   Imagine, a doctor leaves home in the U.S. or elsewhere to come sleep in a tent to help save us from this scourge of Ebola and yet poorly educated young people want to attack him. ... It is very deplorable.

3. Passenger Rene Levaque:

   We were promised that our luggage would be delivered the very next day. It was poorly handled. They weren’t prepared. They absolutely weren’t prepared for that.

4. Greg Peters:

   When the market seizes up or starts to trade poorly, you want to be in a position where you can buy, That's what we did with the high-yield market in October. ... Now with spreads tightening, we're starting to take that risk down.

5. Monica Schoch-Spana:

   It is not a foregone conclusion it's going to go well, and it's not a foregone conclusion it's going to go poorly.