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Search phrase: poorly

Plays

5 result(s). alternate result(s)

Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Cymbeline	Cym IV.ii.16.1	Stealing so poorly.	Stealing so poorely.
Henry V	H5 IV.ii.39	Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,	Their ragged Curtaines poorely are let loose,
Macbeth	Mac II.ii.72	So poorly in your thoughts.	So poorely in your thoughts.
Richard II	R2 III.iii.128	To look so poorly and to speak so fair?	To looke so poorely, and to speake so faire?
Troilus and Cressida	TC IV.iv.39	Did buy each other, must poorly sell ourselves	Did buy each other, must poorely sell our selues,

Poems

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.97	But poorly rich so wanteth in his store	But poorly rich so wanteth in his store,
Sonnets	Sonn.53.6	Is poorly imitated after you;	Is poorely immitated after you,

Glossary

12 result(s).

hard	badly, poorly, ill
ill	imperfectly, poorly, to ill effect
ill-disposed	badly arranged, poorly presented
ill-inhabited	badly housed, poorly accommodated
ill-weaved	poorly woven
pilled	poorly, miserably, beggarly
poorly	abjectly, humbly, miserably
simply	poorly, inadequately, weakly
slenderly	poorly, inadequately, to a slight extent
stammer	describe poorly, undervalue
unshaped	uncontrolled, poorly formed
unthought-of	despised, poorly thought of

Thesaurus

17 result(s).

accommodated poorly	ill-inhabited
describe poorly	stammer
formed poorly	unshaped
poorly	hard
poorly	ill
poorly	pilled
poorly	simply
poorly	slenderly
poorly accommodated	ill-inhabited
poorly describe	stammer
poorly formed	unshaped
poorly presented	ill-disposed
poorly thought of	unthought-of
poorly woven	ill-weaved
presented poorly	ill-disposed
thought of, poorly	unthought-of
woven, poorly	ill-weaved

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