badly off
Example Sentences
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He had misfired so badly off the 18th tee that he didn’t even know where his ball had gone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
"The alarmingly high rates of global deforestation remind us how badly off track we are in solving the climate and nature crises."
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
The chemistry and understanding was badly off, and when under pressure, players took the cautious route by playing the ball backward.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022
“We are not that badly off in the measurement game,” she says.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 18, 2022
When I realized that I did not even know what day of the month it was, I began to realize how badly off I had in fact been, lately.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
