badly off (?.)

• depressed
• dire
• distressed
• donsie
• doomful
• down to bedrock
• embarrassed
• evil-starred
• fatal
• feeling the pinch
• fortuneless
• funest
• hapless
• hard up
• ill off
• ill-starred
• impecunious
• in Queer Street
• in adverse circumstances
• in narrow circumstances
• in reduced circumstances
• in straitened circumstances
• inauspicious
• land-poor
• luckless
• narrow
• ominous
• on the edge
• out of luck
• out of pocket
• pinched
• planet-struck
• poor
• poorly off
• reduced
• sad
• short
• short of cash
• short of funds
• short of luck
• short of money
• squeezed
• star-crossed
• straitened
• strapped
• unblessed
• underprivileged
• unfortunate
• unhappy
• unlucky
• unmoneyed
• unprosperous
• unprovidential