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at worst

ADVERB
  1. under the worst of conditions
    at worst we'll go to jail

How To Use at worst In A Sentence

  • Some might say, at worst, armed insurrection. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is criminal negligence at best or treason at worst. The Sun
  • At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted, an effect known as organic overload, allowing large numbers of micro-organisms to survive.
  • At worst that could mean ejection from the postgraduate social work course he'd sweated blood to get on to. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
  • 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
  • ‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
  • At best, he's a vain, insecure man; at worst, he's a paranoid megalomaniac narcissist.
  • At best Nella would be an invalid; at worst she would die.
  • To feel that way towards toffs today makes you at best an anachronism, at worst a freak, as I was reminded recently when I appeared at a literary festival.
  • At best it was enormously misleading, and at worst it was untruthful.
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