Synonym: ailing, badly, ill, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell. Similar words: poor, floor leader, pool, spoon, lampoon, teaspoon, tablespoon, world. Meaning: ['pʊrlɪ /'pʊəlɪ] adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness. adv. (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well.
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61 The poorly designed bridge needs remedial work to make it safe.
62 This period of barbarian rule is poorly represented in the archaeological record.
63 Some are living in poorly built dormitories, even in tents.
64 The report found that safety equipment had been very poorly maintained.
65 But how dull a poorly constructed fugue can be.
66 It gets on poorly with other genres.
67 The archaeology of this region is poorly documented.
68 The army was inefficient and poorly equipped.
69 But back then, he says, aerodynamics were poorly understood.
70 The proposed law is poorly written and inflexible.
71 His lands were poorly farmed.
72 The mechanisms underlying the inflammatory process are poorly understood.
73 It's often caused by poorly installed gas appliances.
73 Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
74 Darlington is poorly served for car parking.
75 A poorly nourished woman becomes small and thin.
76 The article is really poorly written.
77 Port lawyers at the time drew up poorly worded contracts that do not properly protect district interests.
78 Vaginal discharge Vaginal discharge is one of the commonest female complaints and one that is in general poorly understood and looked after.
79 The rhythm section of these hits then began cutting behind the poorly shouted vocals of a white keyboardist named Harry Casey.
80 The director blocks the exchanges poorly, frequently keeping one of the participants in darkness.
81 The equation of state of molecular hydrogen at high pressures and temperatures is particularly important and yet it is poorly known.
82 He pledged that his administration would defend the principle of states' rights, which augured poorly for civil rights enforcement.
83 Very little material was ever screened, other than poorly made Soviet documentaries designed for propaganda.
84 Most, if not all, of our parents were either out of work or poorly paid.
85 So Britain is poorly equipped to even consider making any comparisons of the productivity or usefulness of research.
86 We went to eat lunch in a restaurant frequented by poorly paid clerks and secretaries and, no doubt, messengers.
87 The little girl replied that Mary would be feeling very poorly because of the bump on her head.
88 Those at risk-overly sensitive, poorly assertive children-have not achieved the emotional mastery necessary to be successfully separate from parents.
89 To us poorly equipped and half-starved rebels it was a revelation.
90 There were hardly any well known names; the recently purchased Simon Vouet is very poorly executed.