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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BADLY OFF

badge
badgeless
badger
badger baiting
badgerly
badinage
badinerie
badious
badlands
badly
badman
badmash
badmen
badminton
badminton court
badminton cup
badminton racket
badness

WORDS THAT END LIKE BADLY OFF

better off
buy off
carry off
comfortably off
cry off
cut off
day off
drop off
get off
hold off
kick off
lay off
marry off
on and off
pay off
play off
set off
show off
take off
turn off

Synonyms and antonyms of badly off in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «badly off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BADLY OFF

Find out the translation of badly off to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of badly off from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «badly off» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

严重关
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mal de dinero
570 millions of speakers

English

badly off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बुरी तरह से बंद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ماسة خارج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бедствовали
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mal off
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খারাপভাবে বন্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mal en point
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Teruk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlecht dran
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ひどくオフ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

심하게 떨어져
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kanti mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bị tắt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மோசமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाईट रीतीने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Eli darda
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malandato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

źle się
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бідували
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prost off
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άσχημα off
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sleg af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dåligt off
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dårlig råd
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BADLY OFF»

The term «badly off» is regularly used and occupies the 99.231 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BADLY OFF» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BADLY OFF»

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Endowments, Inequality, and Aggregation: An Inquiry on the ...
badly-off is entirely irrelevant. It will often be more appropriate, for example, to benefit the more badly-off so long as the benefits concerned do more to reduce subthreshold deviation than when conferred on the less badly-off. Whether this is so ...
Daniel Kearney Halliday, 2011
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Rescuing Justice and Equality
ple be badly off, when other people are so well off? That is not the same as the colorless question, Why should some people be better off than others? For in that question there is no reference to absolute levels of condition, hence no reference  ...
G. A Cohen, 2009
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Equal Freedom: Selected Tanner Lectures on Human Values
But the structure of that premise is too simple to accommodate the thought that gets them going politically, which is: why should some people be badly off, when other people are so well off? That is not the same as the colorless question, Why  ...
Stephen L. Darwall, 1995
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Socialism and the Common Good: New Fabian Essays
Either it would make the badly off worse off still, in frustration of the original egalitarian purpose, or it would make the badly off no better off, while others are made worse off to no evident purpose. Relative to their initial inspiration, which is a ...
Preston T. King, 1996
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Socialism and the Common Good: New Fabian Essays
Either it would make the badly off worse off still, in frustration of the original egalitarian purpose, or it would make the badly off no better off, while others are made worse off to no evident purpose. Relative to their initial inspiration, which is a ...
Professor Preston King, 2014
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Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of ...
to benefit afew people who are badly off by just a little, rather than a lot of people who are almost as badly off by a lot.10 In those cases where the differences in people's initial situations are small, it seems that the plausibility of giving lexical ...
Larry S. Temkin, 2012
7
World Poverty and Human Rights
Radical inequality may be defined by reference to five conditions:320 1 The worse-off are very badly off in absolute terms. 2 They are also very badly off in relative terms – very much worse off than many others. 3 The inequality is impervious: it ...
Thomas W. Pogge, 2008
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The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics
... aggregate, as many utilitarians seem to think it could, then PU instructs us, other things being equal, to maximize the number of well-off people. The 'other things' that must be equal, of course, include the ill-being of those who are badly off.
Jesper Ryberg, Torbjörn Tännsjö, 2004
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Intricate Ethics : Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible ...
smaller benefits to a greater number of people than to provide a bigger benefit to one person, so long as they will all be equally badly off if not helped. Put in the language of individual complaints, C will have the biggest complaint if improving  ...
F. M. Kamm Professor of Philosophy Harvard University, 2006
10
Egalitarianism: New Essays on the Nature and Value of Equality
In every outcome, each person is either badly off or well off. The welloff people are equally well off across the different outcomes and so are the badly off people. The outcomes differ only in the number of people who are badly off and the ...
Nils Holtug, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BADLY OFF»

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1
Greek defiance cheered by Europe's far right and left
But they are all built on a shared sense that Europe has gone badly off track, whether through merciless economic policies that have widened ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
Low iron ore prices to reduce mfg costs: Kalyani Steels
Latha: Is it that coastal plants would be a little less badly off and plants in the interior would be even worse off? A: I don't think very large ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jul 15»
3
Jacqui Lambie Jokes That The Greens Are Just Like ISIS, Surprising …
Tasmanian politicians are just having an absolute ripper of a week so far. Liberal Senator Eric Abetz went badly off-script due to a wiring error a ... «Junkee, Jul 15»
4
Dorset author Eve Bonham will be signing new book in Dorchester
... my book the prodigal is a daughter, Kate, who strays badly off the rails and the older son, David, is a workaholic who runs a debt-ridden hotel. «Blackmore Vale Magazine, Jul 15»
5
Love – on however many legs
She came down hard and, in her panic, very badly off kilter. I found her in the living room with the fur on her back and tail sticking straight out, ... «St. Louis Jewish Light, Jul 15»
6
McLaren should prioritise pace over reliability says Button
Much of Honda's problem in 2015 has been reliability, but the MP4-30 package remains badly off the pace, and the biggest issue is clearly ... «GrandPrix, Jul 15»
7
Dear Alison: 'I went to a swingers club and loved it. How do I tell my …
She owns her own house and isn't badly off. We're worried this window cleaner might be gold digging. We assume he's divorced or something, ... «Stoke Sentinel, Jun 15»
8
When do profits become obscene?
But she'll be right mate, because as long as Theo makes his millions and the very rich John Key keeps smiling, the plight of the badly off in ... «Wanganui Chronicle, Jun 15»
9
'Beneath a Mask'
Also this week, Dominic's determination that his mother won't be staying long seems to be badly off base when he discovers that she has got a ... «Digital Spy UK, Jun 15»
10
Rants & Raves
Just another chapter in the saga of a well-intentioned idea that has gone badly off the rails. RAVE: For our website readers. We posted a story ... «Cape Breton Post, Jun 15»

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