badly off
See also: badly-off
English
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.
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