badly off

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badly off

adjective worse off · more badly off · worst off · most badly off · badly-off · bad off

In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty. The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.
Similar: poor

Opposite: well off, rich

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adjective

Opposite: well off, rich

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adj In unfortunate circumstances

Deutsch	schlecht dran

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@misc{badly_off_2026,
  title = {badly off},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/badly%20off},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}