badly off
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He had misfired so badly off the 18th tee that he didn’t even know where his ball had gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
"The alarmingly high rates of global deforestation remind us how badly off track we are in solving the climate and nature crises."
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024
His short attempt to save bogey, the type of putt he likely could have pulled off blindfolded in his younger years, was badly off line.
From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022
“We are not that badly off in the measurement game,” she says.
From Scientific American • Apr. 18, 2022
Poor whites from west Texas, her family was so badly off sometimes she’d come to school with no lunch and no money and we would split whatever I had brought along.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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