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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121 Welds split because of continual use, and poorly constructed boreholes let sand and grit into the well water.
122 Astronauts have learned that we live on a delicate planet whose complex workings are poorly understood.
123 He adds that the line between accession and adhesion is poorly defined.
124 He had left the gas low so that the room was poorly lit, but he could see well enough.
125 The expatriate's role is often poorly defined; instead of genuine capacity building, expatriates simply plug gaps.
126 When he'd first been taken poorly, Baby had been driven in an ambulance from one hospital to another.
127 It is not just that the ideas which underpin progressive primary methods have been, with a few notable exceptions, poorly articulated.
128 A poorly fitted saddle will affect the performance of rider and horse, he explains.
129 The public health infrastructure of this country is poorly prepared for the emerging disease problems of a rapidly changing world.
130 This prompted two Republican candidates who are faring poorly to invite Mr Weicker back to the party; he refused.
131 The meeting hall was an elongated poorly lighted room bordering on bareness.
132 Only Torbay, with its high proportion of elderly and retired persons in owner-occupied accommodation, is more poorly provided.
133 He also treated the little gray man poorly and was likewise cursed.
133 Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
134 There is also the legacy of cramped, poorly lit housing.
135 Because of this people were willing to accept poorly formulated religious explanations which had little or nothing to do with the Bible.
136 The exact cause of hypercalcemia in this disorder is poorly understood.
137 Compared with her predecessors Elizabeth was poorly placed to raise loans, especially during her later years.
138 Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
139 However, the groups are poorly financed, too few in number, and only found in major cities.
140 So if yours is looking poorly, hack it out and replace it.
141 She was so poorly versed in the emotions that she failed to comprehend its true nature.
142 Left to their own devices, the Confederates dealt poorly with the management problem of their enormous hostile slave population.
143 Schuler4 suggests that dollarization is appropriate when a country's central bank has performed poorly.
144 Automakers are chary about shipping base cars for test drives, because those cars sell poorly.
145 For one thing, in terms of buying power, Congress is probably more poorly paid today than it has ever been.
146 But the lunar gravity field was then so poorly mapped that the chances of achieving a successful preprogrammed landing were very small.
147 But the rest of the acting is either poorly thought out or downright amateurish.
148 Our results show that poorly controlled surgical pain significantly reduces tissue-oxygen tension.
149 The inclusion of measures of social deprivation is also poorly thought out.
150 Care management goes live in April 1993 but is still poorly rehearsed and its performance may yet disappoint.