in a bad way, adj.
facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
<adj.all> (p) freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
distressed hard put hard-pressed in a bad way
sample sentences
"distressed companies need loans and technical advice""financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"
"we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment"
"found themselves in a bad way financially"
semantic pointers
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