in a bad way

== English == === Prepositional phrase === in a bad way 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. === References === “in a bad way”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.