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at best

ADVERB
  1. under the best of conditions
    at best we'll lose only the money

How To Use at best In A Sentence

  • When Wilbraham was telling me this part of Ids story he seemed to be enveloped -- "enveloped" is the word that best conveys my own experience of him -- by some quite radiant happiness. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
  • On a long drive back and forth from Clackamas Lake a body of water, which at best, merits the term pond I gave it another listen. I'm getting back, into getting back into listening to some Silver Jews
  • This is criminal negligence at best or treason at worst. The Sun
  • The Pre-U would at best take us back to the position in 2000. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • But the subordinates accentuated the differences between the roles of individual contributor and manager that best fitted their interests.
  • I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season? Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
  • Too frequently the stories seem to settle for, at worst, an indulgence in superficial whimsy, at best, a cultivation of the bizarre in situation and event that, at least as I read them, can't bear the weight they're asked to bear when left to provide the primary source of dramatic interest. Genre Fiction
  • People with a political grudge couldn’t stop themselves from hyping it into something sinister or, at best, evidence of duncery. Damn them « BuzzMachine
  • But the problem with early apples is that they don't keep very well – a week or so at best. Gardens: Apple glut
  • ‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
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