The phrase "actually as bad" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the severity or negativity of something to another situation or expectation, often to emphasize that the reality is worse than anticipated.
Example: "I thought the movie would be entertaining, but it was actually as bad as the reviews suggested."
Alternatives: "truly as terrible" or "genuinely as awful".
That was not actually as bad as it sounds.
Actually, as bad a decision as the continued employment of Coulson was, it was hardly the most terrible thing that has happened in postwar British politics.
It is wondering, that is, whether things are actually as bad as they seem bad enough to justify new easing.That's just a little maddening.
The BIS reckons central banks need not worry about doing more to support growth, since monetary policy is not particularly effective now anyway and deflation isn't actually as bad as tales from the Depression would lead one to believe.
So it's worth saying something about the (fairly widespread) rejoinder that these numbers aren't actually as bad as they look, because most young people are in school or training rather than looking fruitlessly for work.
We wanted the show to be almost a survival guide, a kind of self-help manual for teenage boys, so that they could look at it and say, "My life sucks but it's not actually as bad as it is for Will and Simon and Jay and Neil".
"North Korea has given me the opportunity to bring these players and their families over here, so people can actually see, so these players can actually see, that this country is actually not as bad as people project it to be in the media," Rodman told the Associated Press on Thursday.
"North Korea has given me the opportunity to bring these players and their families over here, so people can actually see, so these players can actually see, that this country is actually not as bad as people project it to be in the media," he said.
"It is not bad actually, not as bad as I first feared," admitted Giroud.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES Several readers have asked if Hurricane Sandy will actually be as bad as meteorologists are predicting.
But as I argued yesterday, this outcome is actually not as bad as the outcome that Trump is asking Dems to cooperate with him on bringing about, which makes this threat meaningless.
