Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty:
— Found themselves in a bad way financially.
synonyms: distressed, hard-pressed, hard put.
Roget 655:
diseased;
ailing
etc.
v.;
ill,
ill of;
taken ill,
seized with;
indisposed,
unwell,
sick,
squeamish,
poorly,
seedy;
affected with illness,
afflicted with illness;
laid up,
confined,
bedridden,
invalided,
in hospital,
on the sick list;
out of health,
out of sorts;
under the weather [U.S.];
valetudinary†.
unsound,
unhealthy;
sickly,
morbid,
morbose†,
healthless†,
infirm,
chlorotic [Med.],
unbraced†.
drooping,
flagging,
lame,
crippled,
halting.
morbid,
tainted,
vitiated,
peccant,
contaminated,
poisoned,
tabid†,
mangy,
leprous,
cankered;
rotten,
rotten to the core,
rotten at the core;
withered,
palsied,
paralytic;
dyspeptic;
luetic†,
pneumonic,
pulmonic [Med.],
phthisic†,
rachitic;
syntectic†,
syntectical†;
tabetic†,
varicose.
touched in the wind,
broken-winded,
spavined,
gasping;
hors de combat
etc.
(useless)
645 [Fr.].
weakly,
weakened
etc.
(weak)
160;
decrepit;
decayed
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
incurable
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
in declining health;
cranky;
in a bad way,
in danger,
prostrate;
moribund
etc.
(death)
360.
morbific
etc.
657†;
epidemic,
endemic;
zymotic†.
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Roget 659:
unimproved
etc.
(improve)
etc.
658;
deteriorated
etc.
v.;
altered,
altered for the worse;
injured
etc.
v.;
sprung;
withering,
spoiling
etc.
v.;
on the wane,
on the decline;
tabid†;
degenerate;
marescent†;
worse;
the worse for,
all the worse for;
out of repair,
out of tune;
imperfect
etc.
651;
the worse for wear;
battered;
weathered,
weather-beaten;
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare;
worn,
worn to a thread,
worn to a shadow,
worn to the stump,
worn to rags;
reduced,
reduced to a skeleton;
far gone;
tacky [U.S.].
decayed
etc.
v.;
moth-eaten,
worm-eaten;
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown;
discolored;
effete,
wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted;
depraved
etc.
(vicious)
945;
decrepid†,
decrepit;
broke,
busted,
broken,
out of commission,
hors de combat [Fr.],
out of action,
broken down;
done,
done for,
done up;
worn out,
used up,
finished;
beyond saving,
fit for the dust hole,
fit for the wastepaper basket,
past work
etc.
(useless)
645.
at a low ebb,
in a bad way,
on one's last legs;
undermined,
deciduous;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162;
tottering
etc.
(dangerous)
665;
past cure
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
fatigued
etc.
688;
retrograde
etc.
(retrogressive)
283;
deleterious
etc.
649.
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Roget 665:
in danger
etc.
n.;
endangered
etc.
v.;
fraught with danger;
dangerous,
hazardous,
perilous,
parlous,
periculous†;
unsafe,
unprotected
etc.
(safe, protect)
etc.
664;
insecure.
untrustworthy;
built upon. sand,
on a sandy basis;
wildcat.
defenseless,
fenceless,
guardless†,
harborless;
unshielded;
vulnerable,
expugnable†,
exposed;
open to
etc.
(liable)
177.
aux abois [Fr.],
at bay;
on the wrong side of the wall,
on a lee shore,
on the rocks.
at stake,
in question;
precarious,
critical,
ticklish;
slippery,
slippy;
hanging by a thread
etc.
v.;
with a halter round one's neck;
between the hammer and the anvil,
between Scylla and Charybdis,
between a rock and a hard place,
between the devil and the deep blue sea,
between two fires;
on the edge of a precipice,
on the brink of a precipice,
on the verge of a precipice,
on the edge of a volcano;
in the lion's den,
on slippery ground,
under fire;
not out of the wood.
unwarned,
unadmonished,
unadvised,
unprepared
etc.
674;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
tottering;
unstable,
unsteady;
shaky,
top-heavy,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
crumbling,
waterlogged;
helpless,
guideless†;
in a bad way;
reduced to the last extremity,
at the last extremity;
trembling in the balance;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162.
threatening
etc.
909;
ominous,
illomened;
alarming
etc.
(fear)
860;
explosive.
adventurous
etc.
(rash)
863,
(bold)
861.
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Roget 735:
unfortunate,
unblest†,
unhappy,
unlucky;
improsperous†,
unprosperous;
hoodooed [U.S.];
luckless,
hapless;
out of luck;
in trouble,
in a bad way,
in an evil plight;
under a cloud;
clouded;
ill off,
badly off;
in adverse circumstances;
poor
etc.
804;
behindhand,
down in the world,
decayed,
undone;
on the road to ruin,
on its last legs,
on the wane;
in one's utmost need.
planet-struck,
devoted;
born under an evil star,
born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth;
ill-fated,
ill-starred,
ill-omened.
adverse,
untoward;
disastrous,
calamitous,
ruinous,
dire,
deplorable.
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