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IN A BAD WAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in a bad way mean?
• IN A BAD WAY (adjective)
The adjective IN A BAD WAY has 1 sense:
1. facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
Familiarity information: IN A BAD WAY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
Synonyms:
distressed; hard-pressed; hard put; in a bad way
Context example:
found themselves in a bad way financially
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Context examples
Eclipses are the strongest aspects the universe sends us, and the news they bring is usually startling, but not always in a bad way.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
During the last year or two, things have gone against him—secret speculation, I think—and he finds himself in a bad way.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Old what's-his-name's in a bad way, and it's about that, I believe.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But there's a thing or two I have to tell you, I said, and by this time I was quite excited; and the first is this: here you are, in a bad way—ship lost, treasure lost, men lost, your whole business gone to wreck; and if you want to know who did it—it was I!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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