Definition of Poorly

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Poorly

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.

Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.

Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.

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Poorly Quotations

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
Barack Obama

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Voltaire

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
Robert Baden-Powell

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Karl Kraus

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
Vince McMahon

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
Steve Ballmer

Poorly Translations

poorly in Spanish is pobremente

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