WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

in a bad way
    adj 1: 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"
           [syn: distressed, hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad
           way(p)]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "in a bad way":
   ailing, ausgespielt, bad, below par, between two fires, cornered,
   critically ill, done, done up, down, effete, emptied, endangered,
   exhausted, faint, faintish, far-gone, fatigued, feeling awful,
   feeling faint, feeling something terrible, frazzled, ill,
   imperiled, in a predicament, in danger, in desperate case,
   in extremis, in jeopardy, indisposed, jaded, jeopardized, laid low,
   mortally ill, not quite right, off-color, on the spot,
   out of sorts, played out, pooped, rocky, run-down, seedy, shotten,
   sick, sick unto death, sickish, spent, taken ill, threatened,
   tired, under the weather, unwell, used up, worn-out