- superlative of bad.
worst
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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
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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
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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
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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