in a bad way

What we are seeing in this country with reactionary politics is just the pendulum of history swinging backward in a bad way.

There can be no gainsaying that Boeing has been in a bad way at least since 2018, the last year in which the company booked an annual profit.

“My old music was more crowd-pleasery, not in a bad way. It was just for more people,” she says.

The audience for anime is violently passionate — violent in a good way, not violent in a bad way.

But even Trump supporters were doing damage control as Hinchcliffe’s set went viral — in a bad way.