in a bad way is an adjective meaning "facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty". It carries one recorded sense.
facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
“distressed companies need loans and technical advice”
“financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices”
“we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment”
“found themselves in a bad way financially”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for in a bad way come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.