- superlative of bad.
worst
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The Octobers of those three years, of course, include the two with the worst crashes in U.S. history as well as one when the bottom dropped out of the market during the global financial crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The S&P 500 had its worst day in more than a month, falling 0.8%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Astros are a .500 team, the worst record a division champion has taken into the postseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
That decision came a few months after the party's worst ever Holyrood election result in May.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The worst part was seeing people with ugly whitish scars.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
In fact, five earned runs and three homers remain season worsts for Gray, who has a 2.99 ERA in 16 starts since that April 1 loss.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
Those missing pieces effected Elliott perhaps more than anyone, and he finished with career worsts of 979 yards and eight total touchdowns.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
They gave up 27 straight points and 36 points total, both season worsts.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2018
At USC, Wilcox’s teams slid to, or very close to, career worsts in points allowed, yardage allowed, completion percentage and turnovers produced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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
His father was a Wall Street banker turned Connecticut senator who was straight out of central casting: craggy, 6-foot-4, wearing gray worsted suits even in warm weather.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2018
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
One more man stood on the porch, dressed in a worsted plaid vest and gray trousers.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
He flew to the army, took upon him the command, and displayed all the abilities of a great general in out-manœuvring and worsting the generals and armies of Savoy.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
But if Michael, after thoroughly worsting you, asks me my opinion, I shall certainly give it him.
From Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
He was the first to speak, and, in doing so, he felt he was acknowledging his worsting in the encounter.
From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum
Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.
From Persuasion by Jane Austen
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
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