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in a bad way
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]Example Sentences
we are seeing in this country with reactionary politics is just the pendulum of history swinging backward in a bad way.
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.
“My old music was more crowd-pleasery, not in a bad way. It was just for more people,” she says.
The audience for anime is violently passionate — violent in a good way, not violent in a bad way.
But even Trump supporters were doing damage control as Hinchcliffe’s set went viral — in a bad way.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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