How to use poorly in a sentence

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• In very ancient or poorly documented languages, the precise semantics of words tend to be uncertain.From the entry semantics
• The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.From the entry turf
• A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.From the entry obstacle
• The legislative framework provides much opportunity for correction and amendment of poorly thought out bills.From the entry legislative
• Don't do poorly in your first interview; you won't get a mulligan.From the entry mulligan
• Despite a starry cast, the film performed poorly at the box office.From the entry starry
• I don't look at the standings because my team is doing poorly.From the entry standings
• My mother is poorly, being as how she has a touch of the rheumatics in the leg.From the entry being as
• The brand is viewed poorly, but we have a plan to scrub it down.From the entry scrub down
• The government managed the inflation very poorly.From the entry manage
• She told him the machine was poorly built, but they both knew that she was the one who had malfunctioned.From the entry malfunction
• His foul out sat poorly with the crowd.From the entry foul out
• Taylor has been hitting poorly against left-handers, and Morgan has been hitting poorly against right-handers, so they will platoon.From the entry platoon
• I look poorly on any suggestion of overspending.From the entry look on
• After performing poorly for the first month of the season, he was sent down to the minor leagues.From the entry send down
• The orator acquitted himself very poorly.From the entry acquit
• It's the most poorly developed of all the Bigotry Sciences right behind phrenology.2022 May 19, Lylac Doll (@LylacDoll), Twitter. From the entry transvestigator
• Personally, I believe it was more of a regional dialect and NOT because I was poorly educated.2019 February 25, Paul Turner, quoting Patty West, “Paul Turner: Hello, modern-day Spokane children. I scoff at your puny snow forts.”, in…. From the entry Warshington
• By contrast, the Statilian epitaphs are typically very simple plaques, with shorter, often poorly executed texts.2013, Michele George, Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture, →ISBN. From the entry Statilian
• Big Melba says those light ones age quickly and poorly, but good black don't crack.”2011, J. Marie Darden, Finding Dignity, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry good black don't crack
• A technique that is often poorly used is the “phylum and characteristics” approach.2011 October 19, BJU Press, Biology Teacher Edition with CD Grade 10 4th Edition, page 341. From the entry phylal
• Habilines, still poorly understood, are the “missing link” between apes and humans.2009, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Basic Books, page 4. From the entry habiline
• Unless the beam is aimed poorly, it will always hit its target.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Weapons: GARDIAN Codex entry. From the entry non-relativistic
• Plumcots are extremely flavorful fruits that tend to bear poorly for the first few years.2007, The home orchard: growing your own deciduous fruit and nut trees (ISBN-10: 1-879906-72-4), page 33. From the entry aprium
• A poorly finished trunk has an awkwardly high liftover and no useful handhold on its lid.2007 December 23, Lawrence Ulrich, “Same Small-Car Stew, Stirred and Reheated”, in The New York Times. From the entry awkwardly
• At first glance, thinking well of yourself seems obviously preferable to thinking poorly of yourself.2007 August 18, Oliver Burkeman, “Feel good, feel bad”, in The Guardian. From the entry at first glance
• I no longer have to worry about the possibility of the bits being missharpened or poorly swaged.2006, The Northern Logger and Timber Processor - Volume 55, page 8. From the entry missharpen
• This approach performed poorly where parameter distributions were peaky, which is often the case.2002 March, David Richard Llewellyn Davies, Representing Time in Automated Speech Recognition [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation], Canberra…. From the entry hexadecile
• The meteorite contains abundant, distinct to poorly defined chondrules (about 40 volume %).1998, William D. Birch, “The Broken Hill Meteorite, New South Wales, Australia”, in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New…. From the entry orthopyroxene
• We nipped back along the top to the Sentinel Area, where there's the poorly protected Back Slab.1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, Pete McDonald, page 86. From the entry frictiony

Meaning of poorly

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

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Questions about poorly in a sentence

How do you use poorly in a sentence?

Poorly is used as an adverb and adjective. For example: “He uses his employees poorly.”

What is a short sentence with poorly?

“to live poorly”

What does poorly mean?

Poorly means in a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort.