badly off



depressed, dire, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, evil-starred, fatal, feeling the pinch, hapless, hard up, ill off, ill-starred, impecunious, in adverse circumstances, in narrow circumstances,

   invective - abuse, abusive, address, after-dinner speech, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, calumny, causticity, censorious, chalk talk, condemnatory,

   sobriety - abnegation, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, augustness, balance, calm, calmness, common sense, conservatism, constraint, contact with reality, continence, control, cool,

   likeliness - aptitude, chance, contingency, eventuality, expectation, good chance, liability, likelihood, obligation, odds, outlook, possibility, presumption, probability, prospect,

   impressed - affected, agonized, carved, confirmed, creased, cut, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, devoured by,

   grey out - black out, drop, faint, keel over, pass out, succumb, swoon ,

   tin opener - corkscrew, key, open sesame, opener ,

   preposterous - Gothic, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, asinine, balmy, baroque, barred, batty, beyond belief, bizarre, brain-born, closed-out, contrary to reason, crazy,

   fecklessly - aimlessly, fast, needlessly, pointlessly ,

   unwholesomeness - air pollution, debility, delicacy, delicate health, exhaustion, fragility, frailty, harmfulness, hypochondria, infirmity, languishing, morbidity, pollution, wasting ,

   self-knowledge - acquaintance, corpus, data, datum, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, familiarity, information, intelligence, intimacy, ken, know-how, knowing,