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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But the asylum was the worst.
“How can you call it a _good_ night when you know it must be the very worst night I’ve ever had?” she said reproachfully.
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”
Phillips says I’m the worst dunce he ever saw at it.
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