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.
At worst, a dip in a calm pool with some gently nibbling fish can't be bad for the soul. The Sun
At worst, plain bare-faced lying and scaremongering. Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll
Then he responded by, apparently, unfiring them and saying he's offended but he'll unfire them, which makes him look at best like an equivocator and at worst like he doesn't have any scruples. Edwards On The Bloggers: "Personally Offended," But Believes In "Giving Everyone A Fair Shake"
At worst, a poor rating can put a company out of business.
At worst, some want retribution more than resolution. Christianity Today
No such cutwork is needed on Twilight, which is merely better suited to the large screen than the large print, where within its 600 pages it was at worst, plodding, and at best, tendentious. Interviews with various vampires
Most mass mailers have links posted on each message you can follow to opt-out, and at worst, you could always change your e-mail address.
While most insurers will be lenient if the inaccuracies are unintentional, at worst giving false information can make an insurance policy invalid. The Sun
When our paths did cross he was at best, civil and at worst, hostile. Times, Sunday Times
At worst, it seemed to be a species of con game - a conviction bolstered by the steadily rising number of frauds, defalcations and market manipulations.
A notable feature of pidgins is lack of grammatical complexity; for this reason, they are often referred to at best as simple or simplified languages, at worst as bastardized or broken forms of another language.
When our paths did cross he was at best, civil and at worst, hostile. Times, Sunday Times
Our ‘content’ should be at all times inept, obscure, bluff, diatribe, baloney, codswallop or at worst irrelevant.
At worst, some want retribution more than resolution. Christianity Today
Further, this conception renders purposeful art at best aimless and at worst nonsensical.
For many managers, passing judgment on another human being is an awkward exercise at best, a breeding ground for rancor and hostility at worst.
But at worst they become counterproductive. Times, Sunday Times
At worst, she can only tell you off for being late.
The technique is at best ineffective and at worst dangerous.
At worst, they are a social minefield for all involved. Times, Sunday Times
At present most of the island's septage is simply dumped on vacant land and such activity not only poses a threat to the environment, but public health as well, it is at worst unsafe and unhygienic.
At worst, it may see the world racked by explosions of racialism, xenophobia and ultra-nationalism.
The premise remains interesting, but the plot is cluttered with schemes and counter-schemes that seem unrealistic at best and pointless at worst.
In the 1920s British historian Charles Grey savaged the American adventurer as an unhinged embellisher at best, a liar at worst.
At worst, he would construe it as an act of such unutterable naivety that it could only be interpreted as being malign in intent. BLACK EAGLES
The closest thing Latinos have is El Guapo's arch enemy - Edward James Olmos - who, at worst, may simply shake his head disapprovingly from his Beverly Hills rumpus room and brandish a microwave chimichanga at the television screen at news of a proposed Congressional Bill aimed at mandating that landscapers work while wearing proof of citizenship like a Flava-Flav clock. El Guapo: WANTED: Latino Al Sharpton
At worst a vague objective should be couched in very precise terms.
At worst they are turning a generation into pale antisocial creatures with repetitive strain injury and a propensity to engage in real violence. The Times Literary Supplement
At worst, pro-life groups have been actively working to redescribe traditional means of birth control, such as the pill, as “abortifacients,” and have been fighting state laws mandating insurance coverage for birth control by falsely saying they fund abortions. Link Farm and Open Thread #17
At worst, a light drizzle can be stomached, a little nip on the temperature can be endured - but nothing more extreme.
If you punch one hole in a boat, at best, the boat will never sail properly again and, at worst, the whole boat will sink.
At worst, nuclear war could be unleashed.
She was a foulmouthed, conscience-less killer, unfeeling at best and vicious at worst. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
The arrogance of such logic is at best questionable and at worst fascicle. Archive 2008-05-01
People describe being with just themselves as a condition that is at best boring, and at worst one of non-existence. Nancy Colier: The New Epidemic: Chronic Boredom
If you're a nightly news devotee, then the 30-second hokum that often passes for nutrition science may confuse you at the very least or derail your long-term health at worst.
He usually gives a virtuoso performance for which the Method school, but not Berthold Brecht, would have given him high marks As a TV performer, he leaves the critics batting for him at best, and horribly confused at worst.
That is the question being asked at this most prestigious of festivals, after a long series of productions of operas by the town's most famous son that at best must be counted perverse and at worst dottily destructive.
At worst, the outcome could be wholesale slaughter on a scale that makes the current level of daily mayhem look like the peaceable kingdom.
At worst, they could exacerbate it: by further fragmenting England's teaching workforce and by promoting low professional expectations.
On my reading, Cosgrove, at worst, misapprehended the evidence and came to the wrong conclusions. April Fool’s, Justice Cosgrove! Clean Out Your Desk. : Law is Cool
It was at best a cultural cringe, at worst wickedly archaic. Times, Sunday Times
While most insurers will be lenient if the inaccuracies are unintentional, at worst giving false information can make an insurance policy invalid. The Sun
The considered teaching of churchmen and philosophers still holds incarnate beauty to be, at best, the unintended consequence of accident or design and, at worst, plain old craven idolatry.
The _popular_ free discussion of affairs of the last degree of complication, religious and state affairs, except during the _crisis_ period of revolution, only renders that worst of despotisms, anarchy, chronic; it seats in the social organism that political gangrene, demagogism, which has always hitherto sooner or later required the cauterization of military despotism in order to save even civilization. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
Most people sail through the test with 80 per cent saying that they felt no pain and at worst mild discomfort. Times, Sunday Times
At worst that could mean ejection from the postgraduate social work course he'd sweated blood to get on to. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
They may be a useless waste of money, at worst they may be dangerous. The Sun
He never bludgeons or scalps or scarifies; but serenely indicates, with the calm gesture of a superior authority, the defects and blots which mar perfection, but which the unthinking multitude ignores, or, at worst, admires. Matthew Arnold
At worst some egregious minion had conducted a childish private enterprise.
This mistake has led them at best into errors of judgment and distortion of fact and at worst into academic hucksterism.
At worst, these cut-price sales might be dealt with under the ‘remainders and disposal of surplus stock’ clause of the author's contract.
He presents his advisors and confidantes as ignorant dupes at best and scoundrels at worst.
At worst, the drug can be fatal.
Going further, fiction that celebrates darkness and destruction without the redemption of new insight is at best a useless excrescence and at worst a kind of dangerous pollution.
At best doublespeak makes language sound messy and vague; at worst it makes lies sound like truth.
I, prompted by that worst of devils, poverty, returned to the vile practice, and made the advantage of what they call a handsome face to be the relief to my necessities, and beauty be a pimp to vice. Moll Flanders
It's at best unstatesmanlike and at worst amounts to sabotage-by-soundbite. The Sun
At worst, rates will peak at 4 per cent in 2006 before they start falling again.
Without the facial expressions and tone of voice that play so great a part in human communication, comments may become at best ambiguous, at worst offensive.
Claiming a misunderstanding may help one avoid prosecution by the IRS, but when you're going to be heading Treasury, claiming misunderstanding of such simple concepts shows basic ignorance in your field at best, or a duplicitousness that has no place in government at worst. Tim Geithner — does he belong in the Cabinet or the prison?
The main points of the manifesto leave us in doubt that New Labour is at best a centre party and at worst, the Tories, except more organised.
Finally, of course, are those religious advocates who regard us as at best profaning the sacred, or at worst promoting the work of Satan.
Morris would undoubtedly see these strategies as little more than palliatives at best or work intensification at worst and certainly unchallenging to the structure of capitalist work relations.
This is… infelicitous at best, worrisomely revealing at worst.
I often reflected how my lover at the Bath, struck at the hand of God, repented and abandoned me, and refused to see me any more, though he loved me to an extreme; but I, prompted by that worst of devils, poverty, returned to the vile practice, and made the advantage of what they call a handsome face to be the relief to my necessities, and beauty be a pimp to vice. The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders
In the claim that “the security of the American people is inextricably linked to the security of all people,” they hear echoes of the universalist logic that led to the disaster in Vietnam and see a sweeping foreign policy that the rest of the world finds at best meddlesome and at worst menacingly imperialist. Globaloney
He would seem to be offering a kind of antinomian horology at worst, at best an unctuous pragmatism of local mores.
At best, they were mediocre and at worst, merely a repeat of some of his past successes.
Asthma is at best an annoying condition, and at worst a debilitating, even deadly disease.
The majority of Christians will likely find this title confusing and contradictory at best and entirely entirely incompatible at worst. All articles at Blogcritics
At worst, such politicians are liars, with the blood of innocents on their hands.
The heat involved in cooking causes water to form on walls and ceilings and can, at worst, lead to patches of damp and mould.
Some might say, at worst, armed insurrection. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, at worst, a lengthy slump might be needed to grind out a reduction in nominal prices and wages. Matthew Yglesias » Fringe Europe’s Got a Hard Time Coming
But I believe his preference was teenage boys, which makes him not a pedophile but at worst an ephebophile (mid to late adolescents) who preferred 16 at the youngest IIRC, and even John Derek bordered on that (each wife was sixteen at the first tryst IIRC). Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Things I Didn’t Know
Very few working class houses had indoor lavatories before 1918 and at worst were provided with ash or midden privies.
Consequently, African societies, religion, and knowledge are assessed from a viewpoint that is often construed as evidence of societies that are "traditional" in the sense that they are inefficient, unchanging, and, at worst, "anti-progress"! Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Plinlimmon would seem to be offering a kind of antinomian horology at worst, at best an unctuous pragmatism of local mores.
When our paths did cross he was at best, civil and at worst, hostile. Times, Sunday Times
He and his friends indeed are brutally unfeeling at best and hateful at worst.
I would be relucted to call most of todays education as "education" rather indoctrination at worst or "prizes for all" regardless of ability at best. OPEN THREAD
So, at worst, a bitter contest could merely reinforce the gridlock, with a re-elected, more leftish Comrade Obama pitted against a still more intransigent Republican Congress.
To summarize my personal bias: if history is a banquet, then books like this are Spam (at best) or Olestra (at worst).
The main points of the manifesto leave us in doubt that New Labour is at best a centre party and at worst, the Tories, except more organised.
At best, he was characterized as naïve; at worst, he was told that this article reek sic of brown-nosing to the financial plutocracy and plain dishonesty. Robert Teitelman: The Reaction to Sloan's Bailout Argument
Most people sail through the test with 80 per cent saying that they felt no pain and at worst mild discomfort. Times, Sunday Times
It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful.
They are accepted as an equivocal thing at worst, sometimes as unambiguously good. Times, Sunday Times
But what he has left us with are precisely the various artful arrangements to be found there, and to become preoccupied with the ethics his work purportedly embodies is at best to get ahead of the critical task of assessing that work and at worst to engage in ungrounded speculation. The Event of Truth
Yet we continue to seek and affirm the message that offers a short-term bandage for our gaping spiritual wounds, all the while knowing at a deep level that what we're hearing is, at best, not the whole truth, and at worst, a brazen lie. Christian Piatt: When Preachers Become False Prophets
Kidnapping a Sidhe child was cause for war-between Elfhame Misthold and Elfhame Bete Noir at least; between as many of the hames as each side could draw in at worst. Music To My Sorrow
Thus Mexican workers gain dramatically by moving north , whereas low - skilled Americans lose out slightly at worst.
At worst it is a process by which the police conclusions are transformed into a formal accusation.
Sayeth The FT: “Yet, at worst, a lengthy slump might be needed to grind out a reduction in nominal prices and wages.” Matthew Yglesias » Fringe Europe’s Got a Hard Time Coming
Our biped ancestor had only to put one foot wrong - and catastrophe - at best a stumble, at worst a broken ankle.
He took council with advisers who, at best, were talentless and, at worst, dishonest.
At worst we'll have to sell the house so as to settle our debts.
I personally was encouraged from an early age to regard your country as opportunistic at minimum, greedy at best, and the worst bully in the playground at worst.
At worst, it seemed to be a species of con game - a conviction bolstered by the steadily rising number of frauds, defalcations and market manipulations.
On my scale of morality, the selling of charlie to City high-flyers and celebrities is at worst venal, and possibly not immoral at all.
In the view of the critics, sweeping universalist generalizations based on such a tiny and unrepresentative sample of the world's languages are at best premature and at worst absurd.
They are at best indifferent, at worst destructive alien forces. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Tyler said: ‘Many Gulf veterans who have developed serious illnesses since have given us evidence of administration of vaccines which was at best slap-happy and at worst irresponsible.’
At worst, these cut-price sales might be dealt with under the ‘remainders and disposal of surplus stock’ clause of the author's contract.
Of course, one would have to be incredibly naive to think that Palin, at best a befuddled Republican poster child and at worst another establishment neocon, would follow through on her support and back a new 9/11 investigation should John McCain snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and take the White House. 28 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
Or, perhaps it is a sign that I am sesquipedalian at best and pendantic at worst. Cheeseburger Gothic » Snip snip.
Whereas in my first preregistration job I was on call for 108 hours a week, nowadays I might at worst be on for 80 hours.
At worst, it can be highly offensive; a horror of sexist trappings and misguided tensions.
At worst, he will have lost a couple of years of e-mails and accounts, and will have to reinstall all the software onto his spare machine before he can start working again.
Failure of a biomaterial can at best cause discomfort to the patient and at worst can be fatal.
Are the audience of a play-house, which are generally persons of honour, noblemen, and ladies, or, at worst, as one of your authors calls his gallants, men of wit and pleasure about the town [20], -- are these the rabble of Mr Hunt? The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07
At best, it attempts to implicate everybody in the Nazi debacle; at worst (and I honestly believe this to be the case) it associates Nazism with popular rule in Germany, with massification or any other pejorative Jungian term that one may choose. Syberberg's 'Hitler'
Granted, many “pluralistic” events often mean “we invite everyone except traditional Orthodox people”, but to exclude the fastest growing sector of the Jewish population from a conference talking about the future of the Jewish people is a horrible oversight at best, a patch in panim slap in the face at worst. JPPPI Don’t Like Frum People | Jewschool
First, this is a repertoire book, but there are key parts of the repertoire that are drawish at best and a downright forced draw at worst.
Most people sail through the test with 80 per cent saying that they felt no pain and at worst mild discomfort. Times, Sunday Times
Reasonable people will view that as disobliging at worst. Times, Sunday Times
Ethics without science is at best uninformed and at worst delusive, while science without ethics is at best suspect and at worst downright dangerous.
At the very best, he is unreliable; at worst, he is flaky and irrational.
The technique is at best ineffective and at worst dangerous.
At worst, nuclear war could be unleashed.
On some level, I must believe a guidebook is a sort of magic shield which protects the user from misfortune, confusion or disappointment, even though actual experience tells me they're often a distraction at best and a holiday-wrecking dictator at worst. Help me plan my American road trip
At best it is naive, but at worst it is misleading and at times erroneous.
However, I think we have a ways to go in terms of convincing actuaries that in fact e-mail is at worst a wash and probably a benefit.
Who in their right mind would dedicate months of stress, hassle and intrusion into their lives for the sake of at worst #500 or at best #1500.
Some might say, at worst, armed insurrection. Times, Sunday Times
Most people sail through the test with 80 per cent saying that they felt no pain and at worst mild discomfort. Times, Sunday Times
At best they were footnotes on the contrary theme, at worst outright obfuscation.
Peculiarly Kenyan is “a testimony to the curiously Kenyan habits, smells, tastes and flavours that make this country of ours hilarious at best and annoying at worst.” Global Voices in English » Kenya: A nation laughing at itself
At worst, Gibbons makes a nice platoon bat, and has been able to get by in right field, and play well at first base.
At worst, I would end up falling off the bridge and into the roiling waters of the gorge below. The Rainbow Clockwerkz
While most insurers will be lenient if the inaccuracies are unintentional, at worst giving false information can make an insurance policy invalid. The Sun
These projections are at best pure fantasy and at worst a bold faced lie.
Truth, in his book, seems to constitute at worst an admission of defeat, at best a loss of face. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
The Eluru, Andhra Pradesh born techie also developed the electronics for Pacific Blue, the advanced version of IBM's Deep Blue computer that worsted Garry Kasparov in a chess series.
At worst, television advertising is irritating, but rarely intrusive…
Moscow's leaders, of course, know that most information on political matters spread by Russian media and officials is, at best, filtrated, and, at worst, falsified. Moscow's Miscalculated Show of Strength: Eurasia Reacts Ambiguously to the Russian Caucasus Adventure
So the ‘agreement’ referred to in the AP story is tenuous, at best, and at worst, lacks a whole heap of context that renders it meaningless.
At best, the country has gained a temporary respite; at worst, it has merely succeeded in stoking the flames of hatred even higher.
I am not scholar enough to judge the Scandinavian verse, but the Irish poetic speech seems to me at worst an over abundance of the esotericism which is an essential element in all admirable literature, and I think it is a folly to make light of it, as a recent writer has done.91 Even now verse no less full of symbol and myth seems to me as legitimate as, let us say, a religious picture full of symbolic detail, or the symbolic ornament of a cathedral. Later Articles and Reviews
If you don't think that the Democrats are going to spend the next two years blaming the GOP for everything that is wrong, was wrong, could be wrong and will be wrong, with all due respect, that's pollyannaish at best and rationalization at worst. "Beyond dirty campaigning... to something truly dishonorable."
This time last year I seemed at best a guest and at worst an interloper in a foreign space.
Indeed, the failure to screen for this pervasive ailment is at best negligent and at worst tinged with the broad brush of racism. Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of
He made a strategic error and was at best guilty of political naivety, at worst of incompetence.
At worst, the dreadful suffering they cause is not their own.
At worst, it could have led to a dreadful accident in which not only animals, but also people could have been killed.
They are compulsory charges - thus making the advertised cost of the flights disingenuous to say the least, misrepresentation at worst. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, you have to deal with new cellmates, who are strangers at best and troublemakers sent to keep you company at worst.
For the pro-war blood mongers to claim that they are the true supporters of our troops and that people such as myself of an anti-war disposition are not, is at best a ham-fisted attempt to take the moral high ground and at worst a barefaced lie.
There's the sense that it's not as bad as we had originally feared; it's not that worst case scenario," said Steve Lohrenz, a biological oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi. Gulf Oil Spill 6 Month Anniversary: A Look At The Health Of The Ocean
Kidnapping a Sidhe child was cause for war — between Elfhame Misthold and Elfhame Bete Noir at least; between as many of the hames as each side could draw in at worst. Music to My Sorrow
At worst, I'll be jailed, at best I'll receive a suspended sentence; either way, I'll be disbarred. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
Even his hagiographer puts his performance as ‘at best pragmatic, at worst opportunistic and short-termist’.
It was an indulgence of high spirits or, at worst, a vulgar exhibit of personal vanity and artistic vacuity.
‘At the very best, he is unreliable; at worst, he is flaky and irrational’.
At worst, the outcome could be wholesale slaughter on a scale that makes the current level of daily mayhem look like the peaceable kingdom.
At worst they may receive a substantial invoice in excess of the costs of publication. Times, Sunday Times
At worst, a dip in a calm pool with some gently nibbling fish can't be bad for the soul. The Sun
His hands shake constantly; throw in his current addictions to coffee and cigars and you get transport that is, at best, fumbling and herky-jerky, at worst, upside down in a ditch, surrounded by flashing lights.
Her oversights in the article were glaring at best, offensive and insulting at worst.
What I don't understand is why this basic respect for human rights doesn't apply to the people who call themselves Palestinian and who are illegal immigrants not as a matter of birth but only in the political calculus of those who find their indigenous presence at best an inconvenience and at worst an insolvable threat. Robert Scheer: On The Vilification of Helen Thomas›
At best, jury-rigged silencers are nearly worthless. At worst, they can particially block the gun barrel causing it to overpressure and explode.
You know that at best Billy will be crushed by pit life and at worst he will eventually turn into a version of his swaggering, beer-swilling elder brother.
His political career after 1945 was at best lacklustre, at worst woeful, but his achievements as a self-publicist were brilliant.
The attitude toward the poor is at best one of official indifference, and at worst outright criminalization.
You're not owed anything but, at BEST, the neglect of a postliterate culture, and at worst the sort of calumny and brickbats otherwise reserved for child molestors and the people who hang their toilet paper in the incorrect underhand manner. Nick Mamatas' Journal
At worst they may receive a substantial invoice in excess of the costs of publication. Times, Sunday Times
Any manager who fails to devise adequate systems for job control is at best not in control and at worst out of control.
Believe it or not, I generally sympathize with Gallop, even though I write about fiction or--sigh--sermons that often qualifies as paraliterary at best and subliterary at worst. The Little Professor:
Most people sail through the test with 80 per cent saying that they felt no pain and at worst mild discomfort. Times, Sunday Times
Truth, in his book, seems to constitute at worst an admission of defeat, at best a loss of face. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
At worst we'll have to sell the house so as to settle our debts.
Reasonable people will view that as disobliging at worst. Times, Sunday Times
at worst we'll go to jail
The students believed that the goal of their required first-year course was to improve their writing, and for that reason my effort to pose writing as a subject of analysis was misguided at best and at worst impertinent and irrelevant.
A council report states: ‘Shopping trolleys are, at best, a nuisance and, at worst, eyesores.’
At worst, he would construe it as an act of such unutterable naivety that it could only be interpreted as being malign in intent. BLACK EAGLES
At worst case, we are talking about 1.5 mm/year, which is 10 times less than annual tectonic uprise in many places. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Usually they're in the forms of ancestors, mostly benevolent and at worst sternly disapproving.
They may be a useless waste of money, at worst they may be dangerous. The Sun
Restricting access marginalizes youth, defining them as social nonentities at best, irritations at worst.
At worst, they are perceived as insincere or dishonest.
But over a rough and tumble first term chock-full of congressional standoffs and economic crises, hurt feelings and disappointments, the fever some young black professionals caught four years ago seems to have broken into mild support at best, downright apathy at worst. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
We have argued that the ‘culture of academic psychology’ is, at best, often indifferent to, and, at worst, often antipathetic to the kinds of research that might make the most difference in education.
They are compulsory charges - thus making the advertised cost of the flights disingenuous to say the least, misrepresentation at worst. Times, Sunday Times
It's an erosion of the very concept of greenness, which is coming to be defined in a way that rewards activism at best, and consumerism at worst. Pretty Green, Real Green
Choosing the right software can be time-consuming at best and confusing or frustrating at worst .
At worst, it is an exercise in short-term political cynicism intended to buy off the war critics. Times, Sunday Times
At worst, he was a weak-willed, empty-headed, partially-recovered alcoholic led around by powerful, evil-minded, self-serving, greasy little schemers like Dick Cheney who led us into war for no larger reason than their own greed and vanity. OMG! Knit dinosaurs playing guitar!
The mystery cults were seen as counter-culture at best, and a challenge to authority at worst, particularly in Rome. New Book Explores Secret Ancient History of Rock 'n Roll

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