Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for

in a bad way



Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

In trouble; also, deteriorating. For example, If he can't get that bank loan he'll be in a bad way , or The business is in a bad way, with profits declining every month . [Early 1800s]
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

we are seeing in this country with reactionary politics is just the pendulum of history swinging backward in a bad way.

From

There can be no gainsaying that Boeing has been in a bad way at least since 2018, the last year in which the company booked an annual profit.

From

“My old music was more crowd-pleasery, not in a bad way. It was just for more people,” she says.

From

The audience for anime is violently passionate — violent in a good way, not violent in a bad way.

From

But even Trump supporters were doing damage control as Hinchcliffe’s set went viral — in a bad way.

From

Advertisement

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


in a bad moodin a big way