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badley

badley is the misspelling of badly.

Meaning of badly

Adverb

badly (comparative worse, superlative worst)

  1. In a bad manner.
    • Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule.
    Antonyms:
    well
  2. Very much; to a great degree.
    • I want it so badly.

See all 3 meanings of badly

Proper noun capitalized: Badley

Badley (countable and uncountable, plural Badleys)

  1. A civil parish without a parish council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0655).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of badley

pluralBadleys
alternative formBaddeley

Origin of badley

From the Old English personal name Badda + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

Words that rhyme with badley

Questions about badley

What does badley mean?
Badley means a civil parish without a parish council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0655).
What is badley the misspelling of?
Badley is the misspelling of badly.
What part of speech is badley?
Badley is a proper noun.

Words near badley in the dictionary

  1. badkhons
  2. badla
  3. badland
  4. badlands
  5. badlas
  6. badley
  7. Badleys
  8. badling
  9. badlings
  10. badly
  11. badly off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: badley (page history and authors); Badley (page history and authors); badly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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