4
painfully(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
4
pathetically(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
4
piteously(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
4
reprehensibly(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
4
timelessly(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
4
unfavourably(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
4
untowardly(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
4
wretchedly(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
3
inappropriately(adverb, negatively, terribly, awkwardly, ineptly)
3
ineptly(adverb, awkwardly, inappropriately, inopportunely, unsuitably)
3
snakebitely(adverb, unlucky, bad luck, bad fortune)
3
star-crossedly(adverb, unlucky, bad luck, bad fortune)
3
undesirably(adverb, deplorably, lamentably, unpromisingly, unfittingly)
3
inaptly(adverb, unpromisingly, unfittingly, inexpediently, unprovidentially)
3
incongruously(adverb, unpromisingly, unfittingly, inexpediently, unprovidentially)
3
ominously(adverb, badly, unlucky, terribly)
3
sorely(adverb, even, deplorably, lamentably)
2
unsuitably(adverb, awkwardly, ineptly, inappropriately, inopportunely)
2
in adverse circumstances(expression, idiom, misfortune, unlucky, bad luck)
2
aplessly(adverb, unlucky, bad luck, bad fortune)
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