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Adverb: poorly  por-lee or pûr-lee
  1. In a poor or unsatisfactory manner; not well
    "the team played poorly";
    - ill, badly
Adjective: poorly  por-lee or pûr-lee
  1. Somewhat ill, feeling or being in bad health
    "feeling poorly";
    - ailing, indisposed, peaked, sickly, unwell, under the weather [informal], seedy [archaic], off-colour [Brit, informal], out of sorts [informal], grotty [Brit, informal], crook [Austral, NZ, informal]

See also: ill, sick