worst
/wɜɹst/ adjective A2- Most inferior; doing the least good. · I think putting oil on a burn is the worst thing you can do.
- Most unfavorable. · That's the worst news I've had all day.
- Most harmful or severe. · The worst storm we had last winter knocked down our power lines.
- Used with the definite article and an implied noun: something that is worst. · None of these photographs of me are good, but this one is definitely the worst.
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“Why, that is the very worst offence they could possibly commit; for, don’t you see, Renée, the king is the father of his people, and he who shall plot or contrive aught against the life and safety of the parent of thirty-two millions of souls, is a parricide upon a fearfully great scale?”
It was the worst enemy I had among them all—one who has been after me like a hungry wolf after a caribou all these years.
It’s just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.”
Worst of all, he speedily assumed the same attitude towards my daughter, Alice, and spoke to her more than once in a way which, fortunately, she is too innocent to understand.
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