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  • 51inadequately — adv. unsatisfactorily; insufficiently; deficiently; incompetently; defectively …

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  • 52defective — adjective 1》 imperfect or faulty. 2》 lacking or deficient: dystrophin is commonly defective in muscle tissue. Derivatives defectively adverb defectiveness noun …

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  • 53poorly — I. ad. 1. In want. 2. Insufficiently, inadequately, defectively. 3. Meanly. II. a. Indisposed, ailing, not well, feeble, somewhat ill (colloq.) …

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  • 54defective — adjective 1 not made properly, or not working properly: defective components 2 technical defective verb a verb such as must or can that cannot be used in all the forms that a verb can usually be used in defectively adverb defectiveness noun (U) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 55badly — adverb 1) the job had been very badly done Syn: poorly, incompetently, ineptly, inexpertly, inefficiently, imperfectly, deficiently, defectively, unsatisfactorily, inadequately, incorrectly, faultily, shoddily, amateurishly, carelessly,… …

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  • 56poorly — 1. adverb the text is poorly written Syn: badly, deficiently, defectively, imperfectly, incompetently; appallingly, abysmally, atrociously, awfully, dreadfully; crudely, shoddily, inadequately 2. adjective she felt poorly Syn …

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  • 57badly — adverb 1) the job had been badly done Syn: poorly, unsatisfactorily, inadequately, incorrectly, faultily, defectively, shoddily, amateurishly, carelessly, negligently, incompetently, inexpertly 2) try not to think badly of me …

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  • 58defective — /dəˈfɛktɪv / (say duh fektiv) adjective 1. having a defect; faulty; imperfect. 2. Psychology characterised by subnormal intelligence or behaviour. 3. Grammar (of an inflected word or its inflection) lacking one or more of the inflected forms… …

  • 59amiss — [adj] wrong; defective awry, bad, confused, crooked, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, foul, glitched up*, haywire, imperfect, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, incorrect, mistaken, out of order, sick, unfair, unlawful,… …

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  • 60badly — [adv1] inadequately abominably, awkwardly, blunderingly, carelessly, clumsily, crudely, defectively, erroneously, faultily, feebly, haphazardly, imperfectly, incompetently, ineffectively, ineptly, maladroitly, negligently, poorly, shoddily,… …

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