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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151 Little mineral exploration has been carried out in the area which is poorly exposed except in coastal sections.
152 Writers were poorly paid, rarely given a screen credit and never encouraged to take a fresh approach.
153 The small number of white troops available for defense were poorly equipped and seldom paid.
154 Here the homeworkers poorly paid job dovetails neatly into the work for which she is not paid at all.
155 Aged about ten months, he sports a poorly, red button of a nose, barnacled with encrusted snot.
156 The pressure on Sainsbury will continue if it performs poorly, he said.
157 At the Games: Poorly organized and poorly attended, the Paris Games turn into a disaster.
158 Most schools are in such poor physical condition and are so poorly equipped that this is unlikely to be a viable option.
159 It could be argued that a poorly performing ICU is unlikely to occur in isolation.
160 Because it's a loose filling there can be problems with it shifting in a poorly designed bag.
161 The military operation, on April 25, 1980, was poorly planned and badly executed.
162 Experienced researchers are wise to all the tricks used to camouflage a poorly prepared document, so do not encourage criticism.
163 Despite research contributions for many countries the normal and pathological motor function of the colon remains poorly understood.
164 We know, for instance(sentencedict.com), that dyspnoea is distressing and often poorly controlled.
165 Environmentalists, claiming that the plant is poorly constructed, have for years objected to its opening.
166 Shiraz fitted the bill perfectly, but because it was widely planted it was poorly regarded.
167 The next morning, we got a particularly depressing sample of how poorly our intelligence-gathering system worked.
168 The cost of these complex operations is considerable but poorly known.
169 When you're a little girl and you're poorly, all you want is your mum.
170 Despite feeling outside the mainstream and frustrated at being so poorly prepared for college work, Tanya perseveres.
171 Megan Wai-la was as beautiful as the elegant Jennifer Sung-ah, but was poorly dressed.
172 The root cause of these crises is not that things are being done poorly.
173 Conversely, pursuing a mundane, poorly paid job or no job at all may provoke a sense of alienation from society.
174 Until now all that women were taught to do, from housework to carpet weaving, was devalued and poorly paid.
175 But he was 175 disappointed with the exposition and wrote to Holtz that it was poorly organized, boring and provincial.
176 Human waste fed to cattle could perpetuate these parasites, some of which are picked up by humans from poorly cooked beef.
177 A disturbing tendency is that some adolescent work-inhibited students narrow their peer relationships to others who also do poorly in school.
178 Gus's neighborhood was poorly lighted and the yards were flat patches of dirt, graced with occasional palm trees.
179 Peasant violence was generally localized and poorly organized, but there were serious risings in almost every decade of the seventeenth century.
180 The pathophysiological importance of the ulcerative colitis associated perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies is still poorly understood.