Poorly is valid Scrabble Word

Is poorly a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is poorly valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for POORLY in dictionary:

VERB:

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.

ADVERB:

in a way that is unsatisfactory or inadequate
with insufficient money
in a poor manner
(`ill\' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well

ADJECTIVE:

unwell
Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.

somewhat ill or prone to illness
not in good health

Words related to POORLY

badly11 poor6 poorlier10 poorliest11

How to use POORLY in a sentence

Here was another article I ill could spare wrenched from my poorly and sparsely furnished existence.
I fear that Oates at least will weather such an event very poorly.
But although, Sydney is poorly laid out, it must not be imagined that it is poorly built.
Unhappily, however, for the Pony Club and its worthy representative, I am quite too poorly provided with worldly wealth at this moment to part with much of it.
At the age of twenty he appeared in New York City, poorly clothed, and almost destitute of money.
A few trials proved that this tablet designed poorly and wrote badly.
The invasion was well planned, but its execution was very poorly managed.
But the bulk of the pupils were very poorly fitted.
The staircase was poorly lighted by loopholes looking towards the rear, but it was clean and well-kept.
Mother, the youngest, was always very fragile, and, having been reared in luxury, was poorly calculated for a life of trial and poverty.

And can I say more? The plot is petty, the characters without vigour, and the story poorly told.
Moreover, poorly as he sometimes told his story, he had a story to tell.
Its army, once the strongest in Europe, was now but a handful of poorly equipped and half-drilled men.
These churches are, many of them, poorly supported, and, therefore, inefficient.
A poorly conducted reform school was encouraging crime instead of effecting reform.
Most farmers tried to produce for themselves, as far as possible, everything their families needed, when the soil and situation were poorly suited to the purposes.
Whedell thought of himself, turned adrift, and a wanderer, he invariably tore out a few of the gray hairs which could be poorly spared from his venerable skull.
Joseph to Salt Lake City, but it was poorly equipped and very tedious, oftentimes twenty-one days being required to make the trip.
Of course it is generally known that a great many of the slaves were poorly fed, so it was natural that they should take anything they could to sustain life.
On account of the heat in this region, the churches are so constructed as to be open and airy, and for this reason are poorly adapted for taking the discipline.
Finally he arises, with a sigh, and seeks his room, to rest very poorly, between the pain of his arm and the worry of his mind.
A poorly suppressed cheer ran around the court-room as he resumed his seat.
Even these ills were not so hard to bear as the cold, dirty rooms, hard beds, and poorly cooked food sometimes found in small hotels.

Similar words containing POOR without suffix ly

poor6 poori7 poort7 spoor7 poorer8 pooris8 poorts8 spoors8 nonpoor9 poorbox18 poorest9 poorish12 spoored10 spoorer9 nonpoors10 poorlier10 poorness10 poortith13 poorwill13 spoorers10 spooring11 poorboxes20 poorhouse14 poorliest11 poormouth16 poortiths14 poorwills14 poorhouses15 poormouths17 poornesses12 poormouthed19 poormouthing20 whippoorwill25 whippoorwills26

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