phrase

• In an unfavorable situation; at a disadvantage.

  ‘with his pension benefits, he shouldn't be too badly off’

  More example sentences

  • ‘she was a lot worse off before the divorce’
  • ‘Consider first those people who are badly off: those who are suffering, or destitute, or those whose fundamental needs have not been met.’
  • ‘And Salvadore says there are others as badly off.’
  • ‘So document-wise, I'm not too badly off, either.’
  • ‘We're not too badly off in the three-quarter line either.’
  • ‘Council tax could rise by almost 15 per cent in Lewisham but residents will not be as badly off as other Londoners according to the council.’
  • ‘Forcing more social security recipients to involuntarily seek employment would make some badly off people even worse off.’
  • ‘‘We tend to be critical of what we do and can do, but maybe results like this show we are not as badly off as we think,’ Duff said.’
  • ‘‘The fact is that Scotland is not nearly as badly off as other parts of the country when it comes to asylum,’ he says.’
  • ‘They are not badly off now, but by 2016, there could be 800,000 camels in the Territory!’
  • ‘They could find that they might not be that badly off if the woman decided to stay at home and mind the children and do the housework herself.’

  Synonyms

  destitute, poverty-stricken, impoverished, indigent, penniless, insolvent, impecunious, ruined, pauperized, without a penny to one's name, without two farthings to rub together, without two pennies to rub together