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Definitions

worst

[wurst] / wɜrst /
ADJECTIVE
most wanting
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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Sirianni and Quinn now have to listen to a week’s worth of mocking from laypeople, podcasters, and worst of all, sports columnists at financial newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The National Hurricane Center said the worst of Rachel was over but "hazardous coastal conditions" could persist for days, with the highest waves coinciding with high tides, causing life-threatening surf and rip currents.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

What are the best and worst case predicted scenarios?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

On Sunday, some of the worst damage on the California coast was on the Long Beach Peninsula.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

But the worst part of it all was the bottled-up feelings with no release valve.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The team has suddenly become the best at worsts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

Wacha allowed season worsts of six earned runs and three home runs against Baltimore in his previous start.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022

They gave up 27 straight points and 36 points total, both season worsts.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2018

Blaine Gabbert or Colin Kaepernick failed to provide strong quarterback play, Niners lacked any big-play receivers, defense set franchise worsts for most points, yards and yards rushing allowed in single season.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2017

It seems like a long list of worsts.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

He often mixed silk and wool or silk and linen for a softer alternative to the heavy, stiff gabardines and worsted wools that were typical for men’s suits and jackets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

Rolls upon rolls of flannel, worsted wool and cashmere are stacked in a space the size of a football field.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2017

Dark gray, worsted wool, jackets with rows of brass.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017

She took photographs and wrote poetry; in 1938, The New York Times published her ode to “a day for dreaming in the sun, for telling worsted tales, for languid ease.”

From New York Times ● May 26, 2016

The boys were neatly dressed in snow-white shirts, blazers with badges, preppy caps with badges, ties matching the badges, shiny black and brown shoes, worsted knee-high socks.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

So far as the special matter in hand was concerned, the worsting of Hillsborough, though a gratification, did not result in the bettering of Franklin and his co-petitioners.

From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse

There was that within him, however, which resented the worsting of his chivalry.

From The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy

In the fighting of that day James Douglas, the second son of the fat Earl of Avondale, won the prize, worsting his elder brother William in the final encounter.

From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards

He fought with two knights who asked the lady Canacê to wife, the terms being that none should have her till he had succeeded in worsting Camballo in combat.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

He followed up his success by worsting the Senones, Carnutes, and Menapii, while Labienus defeated the Treviri.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton




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