: in a poor condition or manner
: somewhat ill : indisposed
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Examples of poorly in a Sentence
Adverb
he tends to perform poorly on standardized tests
Adjective
she stayed home because she was feeling poorly
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Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Others point to cybersecurity vulnerabilities that tend to arise with M&A and in the messy process of integrating different technology systems and teams and ask why UHG appears to have been so ill-prepared and poorly defended for such an attack.
—Erika Fry, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
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Adverb
These examples are surely instructive on their own, but the exclusion of so many other countries that have fared more poorly prevents the reader from learning from failure as well as triumph.
—Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Others point to cybersecurity vulnerabilities that tend to arise with M&A and in the messy process of integrating different technology systems and teams and ask why UHG appears to have been so ill-prepared and poorly defended for such an attack.
—Erika Fry, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Poorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poorly. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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