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
“We are not that badly off in the measurement game,” she says.
From Scientific American • Apr. 18, 2022
He faults those holding office for allowing the city to go badly off track.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022
The irony was that before Borna Barisic swung in that corner for Filip Helander to nut home, the Croatian's radar was badly off.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2021
Poor whites from west Texas, her family was so badly off sometimes she’d come to school with no lunch and no money and we would split whatever I had brought along.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
