badly off

adj

badly off

adj

1

In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.

The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

Synonyms: poor
Antonyms: well off, rich

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