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adverb

Poorly adv.

In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.

With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.

Meanly; without spirit. "Nor is their courage or their wealth so low, That from his wars they poorly would retire."

Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.

Poorly off, not well off; not rich.

adjective

Poorly adj. Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health. "Having been poorly in health."

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Etymology of 'Poorly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Poorly" Quotes from Famous Books

... their waste and luxury not constituting the slightest check to the advance of the nations to which these men belonged. The people who lived in luxury in Rome were scattered more thinly than in any modern state of Europe. The masses lived at all times more poorly and frugally because they could do nothing else. Can we conceive that a war force of untold millions of people is rendered effeminate by the luxury of a few hundreds? . . . Too long have historians ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... always been served by a dean and chapter of secular canons. The canons were originally, of course, resident, but the chapter had always been poorly endowed, and as time went on residence was actually discouraged. Perhaps then arose the canon's vicars who represented the canons and chanted in choir. The vicars choral were, however, not incorporated until 1465; they were assisted by ten or twelve boy choristers, whose chief business it ...

— England of My Heart--Spring • Edward Hutton

... poorly dressed—she looked very different now; the woman in black on the train had presented such a ...

— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose

... arsenals well supplied with military stores, they are poorly provided, and the workmen all leaving them.—Instead of having the various articles of field equipage in readiness to deliver, the quartermaster general is but now applying to the several states ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) • John Marshall

... district convention has never been written: it needs no historian. Under the circumstances the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Not all the counties were represented; some were poorly represented; most of the delegates came without any clearly defined aims; all were unfamiliar with the procedure of conventions. The Sangamon County delegation alone, with the possible exception ...

— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson

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