badly off

1. see bad off.

Example Sentences

Brazil was better than Mexico, where he was badly off the pace.

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His biggest problem — and there’s no way to fix it — is that he comes from California, which, to many around the country, reads as far left, nutty and badly off track.

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Trump’s true audience, as always, was his own dismal horde of followers, and this shabbily constructed myth about persecuted white people in a distant land was meant to serve as a “There! You see!” illustrative moment within a much larger narrative: The world has gone so badly off the rails that white people everywhere are disadvantaged, downtrodden and despised; but needless to say, we have a great champion, and only he can fix it.

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Ukraine is not as badly off as Olena Lupak fears, though it is understandable to feel that way in Kharkiv this month.

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"The alarmingly high rates of global deforestation remind us how badly off track we are in solving the climate and nature crises."

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Related Words

• depressed 
• deprived 
• destitute 
• disadvantaged 
• impoverished 
• indigent 
• needy