Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.
Synonyms
Examples for "distressed "
Examples for "distressed "
1 Fifty-four percent expect an increase in distressed mergers and acquisitions this year.
2 This, in the abstract, was gratifying; but in practice it distressed her.
3 Macquarie has used the previous market declines to buy up distressed assets.
4 He often is that way when he has been distressed , she said.
5 They remained distressed , however, at the lack of word from the group.
1 However, he stressed dialogue was the only way to resolve the crisis.
2 They also stressed the importance of imposing sanctions in connection with Europe.
3 EU diplomats stressed they have not yet seen the new British plan.
4 Clancey stressed an international solution was needed to the problem of piracy.
5 Separatist leaders have condemned the violence and stressed the movement's peaceful approach.
1 The reality will be yet another bitter pill for hard - pressed Irish taxpayers.
2 Lower rates would boost disposable income and offer hard - pressed consumers some relief.
3 I think you would be hard - pressed to question my credibility flying experience-wise.
4 Don't think that Minister McCreevy has totally abandoned the hard - pressed home buyers.
5 Some feel he may be hard - pressed to manage that in any case.
1 We was hard put to it to save the wessel and ourselves.
2 Those who don't use it are hard put to comprehend its attraction.
3 Arthas was hard put not to let out a whoop of excitement.
4 They were being hard put to it to run trains at all.
5 Felix, I thought, would be hard put to it to beat it.
1 This time you have made a good thing in a bad way .
2 Not strange in a bad way , no; strange in a weird way.
3 He was in hospital and therefore must be in a bad way .
4 Buttercup was in a bad way ; there was no doubt of it.
5 Dunstall and Russell says it's left the game in a bad way .
6 The two chiefs who had been shot were in a bad way .
7 Luckily for our purpose, the country theaters are in a bad way .
8 Through gambling debts and other obligations he was in a bad way .
9 He's still with us, but I'm afraid he's in a bad way .
10 But I fear that my poor boy is in a bad way .
11 The color looked out of place, but not in a bad way .
12 I am in a bad way , and a bad end may follow.
13 He was a cutie and I wanted him in a bad way .
14 They begin to lose flesh, and get altogether in a bad way .
15 It was kind of odd, but definitely not in a bad way .
16 Sigmund collapsed seemingly out of nowhere and looked in a bad way .
Other examples for "in a bad way"
Grammar, pronunciation and more