at worst

Example Sentences

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“To allow reserve sheriffs who don’t have the requisite training or experience working with vulnerable youth populations is at best a massive miscalculation, and at worst a recipe for unthinkable outcomes,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

The team signed numerous players to contracts worth between $10 million and $20 million annually in recent seasons, believing that, at worst, the players could be enticing trade ballast.

From Los Angeles Times

They are “something like but unlike critical interest, which has its own excitements but remains too often at the level of knowledge, analysis, conclusions, at worst the total boredom of having opinions.”

From Washington Post

In the case of a fake New York City government account, a lack of verification in such cases could be confusing at best and dangerous at worst.

From BBC

Mostly, the men of these tales are mediocre at best, abusers at worst.

From Washington Post