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in a bad way
In trouble; also, deteriorating. For example, If he can't get that bank loan he'll be in a bad way, or The business is in a bad way, with profits declining every month. [Early 1800s]
Example Sentences
She says returning to “Industry” so quickly felt like “another big mountain to climb,” although not necessarily in a bad way.
“California is thought of as the crazy people. ... I don’t mean that in a bad way — though I know some people do — but we do things differently here.”
we are seeing in this country with reactionary politics is just the pendulum of history swinging backward in a bad way.
There can be no gainsaying that Boeing has been in a bad way at least since 2018, the last year in which the company booked an annual profit.
“My old music was more crowd-pleasery, not in a bad way. It was just for more people,” she says.
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