in a bad way

in a bad way

1. Doing badly; in a state of ill health or misfortune.
   • 1934-5, Jawaharlal Nehru, Glimpses of World History, Penguin (2004), p. 372

     We have seen that the Delhi empire was in a pretty bad way. Indeed, one could almost say that, as an empire, it was in no way at all.

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