in a bad way

2 definitions found

in a bad way - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  in a bad way
      adj 1: facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty;
             "distressed companies need loans and technical advice";
             "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering
             their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage
             payment"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"
             [syn: distressed, hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad  way(p)
             ]

in a bad way - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "in a bad way":
     ailing, ausgespielt, bad, below par, between two fires, cornered,
     critically ill, done, done up, down, effete, emptied, endangered,
     exhausted, faint, faintish, far-gone, fatigued, feeling awful,
     feeling faint, feeling something terrible, frazzled, ill,
     imperiled, in a predicament, in danger, in desperate case,
     in extremis, in jeopardy, indisposed, jaded, jeopardized, laid low,
     mortally ill, not quite right, off-color, on the spot,
     out of sorts, played out, pooped, rocky, run-down, seedy, shotten,
     sick, sick unto death, sickish, spent, taken ill, threatened,
     tired, under the weather, unwell, used up, worn-out