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3 ADV [ADV with v] If you want or need something badly , you want or need it very much. □  Why do you want to go so badly? □  Planes landed at Bagram airport today carrying badly needed food and medicine.

4 ADV [ADV with v] If someone behaves badly or treats other people badly , they act in an unkind, unpleasant, or unacceptable way. □  They have both behaved very badly and I am very hurt. □  I would like to know why we pensioners are being so badly treated.

5 ADV [ADV after v] If something reflects badly on someone or makes others think badly of them, it harms their reputation. □  Teachers know that low exam results will reflect badly on them. □  Despite his illegal act, few people think badly of him.

6 ADV [usu ADV -ed, oft ADV after v] If a person or their job is badly paid, they are not paid very much for what they do. □  You may have to work part-time, in a badly paid job with unsociable hours. □  This is the most dangerous professional sport there is, and the worst paid.

7 → see also worse , worst USAGE badly

Don’t use ‘bad’ as an adverb. Don’t say, for example, ‘ I did bad in my exam ’. Say ‘I did badly in my exam ’. □  The project was badly managed.

ba d|ly o ff (worse off , worst off ) in AM, also use bad off 1 ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] If you are badly off , you are in a bad situation. □  The average working week in Japan is 42.3 hours, compared with 41.6 in the U.K., so they are not too badly off.

2 ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] If you are badly off , you do not have much money. □  It is outrageous that people doing well-paid jobs should moan about how badly off they are.

bad|min|ton /bæ dm I ntən/ N‑UNCOUNT Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.

bad-mouth /bæ dmaʊð/ (bad-mouths , bad-mouthing , bad-mouthed ) VERB If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself. □ [V n] Both men continually bad-mouthed each other.

ba d-te mpered ADJ Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily. □  He became bad-tempered and we argued constantly.

bae /be I / (baes ) N‑COUNT [usu sing] Your bae is someone you are romantically involved with or in love with. [INFORMAL ] □  You might give that photo a caption like, "Just another Tuesday with my bae." □  Hey, bae, thinking about you.

baf|fle /bæ f ^ə l/ (baffles , baffling , baffled ) VERB If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it. □ [V n] An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts. ●  baf|fling ADJ □  I was constantly ill, with a baffling array of symptoms. ●  baf|fled ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] □  Police are baffled by the murder.

baf|fle|ment /bæ f ^ə lmənt/ N‑UNCOUNT Bafflement is the state of being baffled. □  The general response was one of understandable bafflement.

bag ◆◆◇ /bæ g/ (bags )

1 N‑COUNT A bag is a container made of thin paper or plastic, for example one that is used in shops to put things in that a customer has bought. ● N‑COUNT A bag of things is the amount of things contained in a bag.

2 N‑COUNT A bag is a strong container with one or two handles, used to carry things in. □  She left the hotel carrying a shopping bag. ● N‑COUNT A bag of things is the amount of things contained in a bag.

3 N‑COUNT A bag is the same as a handbag .

4 N‑PLURAL If you have bags under your eyes, you have folds of skin there, usually because you have not had enough sleep.