Poorly is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 63 anagrams from letters in poorly (loopry).
First recorded in 1250-1300, poorly is from the Middle English word pourely. See poor, -ly
Opened in Sept. 2002, this “poorly managed” detention facility was the second site opened by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks.
Her ladyship had been but poorly, but was better within the last two days.
And when support goes up, so do the earnings of the Zaitokukai—earnings that are poorly accounted for and go untaxed.
The problem, of course, is that the “me vs. not me” response can serve us poorly in the more social sense.
The demand was so sudden and unexpected that it found them poorly prepared to meet it.
For I have seen a letter of his, and indifferently worded, as poorly spelt.
The Denver debate went off without a hitch—except for President Obama, who did poorly, as I recall.
Their fighting was poorly coordinated, their weapons were vintage pieces, mostly seized from the Ukrainian military.
It might be a year old, but was so small and poorly nourished that its age was hard to guess.
But the child who had done so much for him and had been so poorly repaid, was never out of his mind.