in a bad way
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"He was a 70-year-old non-Jewish man with a seriously broken leg, lying on cold, wet ground, and clearly in a bad way," she said.
From BBC
The market is in a bad way right now, as the economy faces plenty of risk.
From Barron's
I felt alone again, but not in a bad way.
From Literature
“It’s the thing in show business, I’ve found, that winds me up in a bad way the least.”
From Los Angeles Times
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota say the evolving fraud cases show the state is a national outlier “in a bad way.”
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