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- adjective nonstandard, humorous
superlative form ofbad : mostbad ;worst .
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Examples
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The worse worsest, worst, wurst? thing about taking holidays is that no-one does your work while your gone, so it just piles up like a snowdrift.
Cheeseburger Gothic » So I took Senator McKinney’s advice… 2009
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But the worsest thing of all is that it's not like I'm up before noon anyway, so I figure what am I complaining about?
sirilyan Diary Entry sirilyan 2003
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But Jane, de worsest time of all fer us darkies wuz when de Ku Klux killed Dan Black.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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There's beasts you never heard tell of in this wood -- worsest of all, snakes, that think nothing of twisting round a child and off with it for their supper afore one could cry out.
Us An Old Fashioned Story Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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"Horrid, my lad; so's having your cattle and horses stole, for if they get one they're bound to have t'other; so is being starved to death; and the worsest of all is being scalped, and that's sure to come if we let them brutes go."
The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains George Manville Fenn 1870
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And then you've been giving your father the worsest quarter of a hour he ever had in his life, and making his heart bust with haggerny.
Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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"It were best for ee, for if thou go'st aboot saying thou'st seen men with guns and clubs up here on the moor, it ull be the worsest day's work ee've ever done."
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"But it couldn't been as bad as if wur Foxey," Bill urged, "he be the very worsest lot about Marsden."
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"If he were the worsest companion on earth, child, yet the lad may lack his wounds dressed," said Rachel, indignantly.
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"You be happy woman, in good sooth, if your worsest trouble be a comb that hath his teeth split."
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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