badly off

See also: badly-off

English

Alternative forms

(alternative spelling) badly-off
bad off, bad-off

Adjective

badly off (comparative worse off or more badly off, superlative worst off or most badly off)

In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
  The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.

Synonyms

poor

Antonyms

Translations

In unfortunate circumstances

Finnish: huonolla tolalla, huonossa jamassa
German: schlecht dran
Polish: źle sytuowany, w trudnym położeniu

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