Wiktionary
a. In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty. alt. In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
Usage examples of "badly off".
You are not as badly off as you might be - but you must get out of here at once and stay away.
I did my best to cheer the men by telling them what a good sign it was that we were not as badly off yet as we had feared.
If they keep expecting every book to be a panacea they'll be just as badly off as me, expecting every man I fall in love with to solve all my problems.
Torisen wasn't handling this situation all that well, but then the presence of a Shanir always put him badly off stride, as Caineron well knew.
As for Martin, he was convinced that one is equally badly off wherever one is, so he bore everything with patience.
His secret hope that Ephron Vestrit was not truly that badly off, that somehow the sea air and the deck of his own ship would miraculously revive him was only a silly child's dream.
They're not as badly off as the Hostigi, since they missed the fighting and shipped in grain and meat from the Upper Middle Kingdoms before winter.
If you'd deployed a remote array, you would almost certainly have had sufficient time to get it close enough to the 'heavy cruiser' to burn through its EW before it managed to draw you so badly off balance and out of position.
One of Jamie's eyes was swelling shut and he was breathing heavily, but otherwise he didn't appear too badly off.