Usually means: Lacking resources or in hardship.
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  1. badly off: Merriam-Webster
  2. badly off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. badly off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. badly-off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. badly-off, badly off: Wiktionary
  6. badly off: Dictionary.com
  7. badly off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. badly off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  9. badly off: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (badly off)

▸ adjective:  In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.

Similar:
well off, underwater, badly, out at elbow, poorly, loserly, worst-case, underly, circumstanced, in the wars, more...

Opposite:
well-off, prosperous, affluent, wealthy, rich

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Similar:
well off, underwater, badly, out at elbow, poorly, loserly, worst-case, underly, circumstanced, in the wars, more...

Opposite:
well-off, prosperous, affluent, wealthy, rich



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