at worst

For instance, influenza can lead to serious lung infection and, at worst, death.

The results were disheartening at best, and at worst, frightening.

The men’s lawyers believe they have a case for a failure to disclose medical records and, at worst, may have had glimpses of a cover-up locked in the bowels of military archives.

“To suggest that enjoying a concert aligns you with every past action of the artist is, at best, simplistic and, at worst, intellectually dishonest,” she said.

Councils have never truly loved the idea of a service which could eat into their responsibility for staffing and services, and their submissions were at best non-committal, at worst openly hostile.