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schlecht in English:

1. ill ill


I'm ill.
I’ll call them tomorrow when I return home.
I was ill, otherwise I would have attended the meeting.
If he continues drinking too much, he will fall ill sooner or later.
This morning I got a telegram from home saying that my father had been suddenly taken ill.
Tomorrow I’ll go out with friends after having lunch.
My father saw that the letters were not in Yun’s handwriting, and asked me “Is your wife ill?”
Is Kim Jong ill or is Kim Jong okay?
Ill news comes apace.
It was the midnight of Friday, 13th; nothing of ill omen was apparent.
As our father got ill, we had to live on a small income.
I’ll give you that article.
The boy made believe he was too ill to go to school.
I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished.
What if you make yourself ill? An unbalanced diet leads to all kinds of sicknesses.

English word "schlecht"(ill) occurs in sets:

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2. poor poor


I'm poor.
His lackadaisical attitude to studying explains his poor grades.
Once upon a time, there lived a poor man and a rich woman.
Your poor memory is due to poor listening habits.
Mary is not poor. On the contrary, she is quite rich.
Such an economic program will help the rich at the expense of the poor.
It makes no difference to me whether you are rich or poor.
Poor Japanese immigrants were willing to work for low pay.
Something you should know about me is that my greatest fear in life is that people will find out that I'm poor.
He managed to pass his driving test even though he was a poor driver.
Poor Tom's been trying to get to sleep for three hours now.
A poor school record will count against you when you look for a job.
Young people are often poor judges of their own abilities.
Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.
Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.

English word "schlecht"(poor) occurs in sets:

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3. badly badly


Tom burned himself badly when he took the pie pan out of the oven without using an oven mitt.
If it's badly insulated, it won't warm up regardless of how much heating you use.
This composition is so badly written than I can not make out what he means.
Although he was born in England, he speaks English very badly.
badly cooked
Thanks to you getting him badly injured, all of that kid's summer plans came to nothing!
Oh yeah? Wanna play this game? Don't get me started or it could all end up badly.
The badly decomposed body of a young girl was found on the side of a highway.
The boxing match was completely one-sided, one pug was so badly mauled that his manager had to throw in the sponge.
It seems you and I are essential to this project. We'd better get along or it'll go badly.
Doctor Burns, what should doctors do when a patient's brain is badly damaged?
My dog was run over by a truck. He was not killed, but his foot was badly injured.
Working so long on the graveyard shift made his health suffer badly.
Did you see his work? Would he have wanted to do it badly, he wouldn't have proceeded otherwise.
He is hurt badly and is unconscious; that is, he can't think, speak, or hear.

English word "schlecht"(badly) occurs in sets:

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4. bad bad


Is it bad?
Why has Japan let pollution get so bad?
The bananas you brought to me last night were all bad.
His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.
If we hang tight, I'm sure we can make it through these bad times.
From personal experience, I know that any encounter with him will leave a bad taste in your mouth.
This increase in the number of unemployed people is a result of the bad economy.
I can make a distinction between good and bad.
It's not right for you to do something bad just because someone else has done something bad.
According to the old man I met yesterday, cockroaches can be eaten and don't taste all that bad.
What happened in Vietnam was like a bad dream.
I think his method of teaching has good points and bad points.
It wasn't my lucky day. First, I got a parking ticket and then things went from bad to worse when I got pulled over for making a U-turn.
Any play opening to bad reviews won't last long.
Hey, has this been sitting out on the dinner table all day? It has to go in the refrigerator or it'll go bad.

English word "schlecht"(bad) occurs in sets:

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5. poorly poorly


He did poorly in his studies.
Thanks to a cold summer, beer has sold poorly.
As always, you have understood poorly!
He left his poorly paid job for greener pastures elsewhere.
Ford was poorly educated.
Don't despise a man because he is poorly dressed.
I've been feeling poorly for the last couple of days.
Unskilled labor is poorly paid.
Muriel is living poorly off of her part-time job.
There is a saying, that "Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly". If one looks at the Linux desktop, one will realise, that it's also true for desktop operating systems.
Our candidate fared poorly in the election.
It's impossible to make a generalization with such poorly obtained data.
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We may know each other too poorly, to address each other like this
It's poorly equipped.

English word "schlecht"(poorly) occurs in sets:

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