badly off

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Badly off were white-collar workers with fixed salaries: schoolteachers, civil-service employes, office workers whom the boom had passed by.

From Time Magazine Archive

Badly off, having but little outlet for his industry, making God knows what shifts to pick up a livelihood, he went through all the disappointments of the countryman turned townsman.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Badly off, of course, to live in that place, yet they know what it means to call me in.

From The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman