in a bad way

Prepositional phrase

 * 1) Doing badly; in a state of ill health or misfortune.
 * 2) * 1934-5,, 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.