In a live-streamed speech, the Vermont senator made it clear he is no longer actively challenging Clinton and that the goal is to ‘defeat Trump badly’
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“The major political task that we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly,” Sanders told supporters in a live stream video. “And I personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time.”
Shouldn't it be: defeat Trump resoundingly, or just plain well? If someone performs something ‘badly’, it usually means they are not very successful, i.e. The action is not done ‘well’.
I sang badly = I didn't sing well
He speaks Spanish badly = He doesn't speak Spanish well
They defeated him badly = They didn't defeat him well
Oxford Dictionaries first definition under the entry of badly is:
In an unsatisfactory, inadequate, or unsuccessful way
- England have played badly this year
- the war was going badly
Although the expression,
a badly sprained ankle
will mean an ankle that is severely (thoroughly) injured.
I know what Sen. Bernie Sanders meant, that Trump has to be defeated by a wide/large margin, but did he say it badly?
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