Word Finder - worst

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Unfavorable; negative; not good.

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Abducting children is bad for mothers.

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Not suitable or fitting.

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Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?

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Not appropriate, of manners etc.

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It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.

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Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.

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Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.

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Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.

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I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state.

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Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.

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Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!

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Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.

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Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.

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Evil; wicked.

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Be careful. There are bad people in the world.

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Faulty; not functional.

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I had a bad headlight.

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(of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.

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These apples have gone bad.

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(of breath) Malodorous; foul.

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Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.

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False; counterfeit; illegitimate.

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They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.

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Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.

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He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.

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Of poor physical appearance.

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I don't look bad in this dress, do I?

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Bold and daring.

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Good, superlative, excellent, cool.

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Man, that new car you bought is bad!

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(of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.

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He is in bad need of a haircut.

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Overly promiscuous, licentious.

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(of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.

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He gave me a bad check.

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Evil; wicked (of people).

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Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

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Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

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He suffered from ill treatment.

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Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.

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ill manners; ill will

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Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

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I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.

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Having an urge to vomit.

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Seeing those pictures made me ill.

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(hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.

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Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

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That band was ill.

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Unwise; not a good idea.

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Something or someone that is the worst

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To make worse.

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To grow worse; to deteriorate.

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To outdo or defeat, especially in battle.

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Superlative of bad

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My sore leg hurts worst when it's cold and rainy.

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Superlative of ill

It was the worst news yet.

The worst part is Sarah doesn't want it.

Richard the Third was one of England's worst kings.

The conductor said it was the worst quake he ever knew.

But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence.

That would be the worst of the options.

He is my worst enemy, and yet, I admire him as the wisest man in the world.

Worst case scenario, she'd call her.

Dusty was prepared for the worst, but Darian's story left him speechless.

And, worst of all, I am growing old--that's the thing!

Those dreams were the worst.

Gabriel felt a thaw deep within him, one fed by the hope that arguing over her sweaters was the worst they'd face from here on out.

She was tired, frustrated, and, worst of all, scared.

But not even in the worst of times did they ever regret for a moment abandoning their life in the East for this quiet mountain hamlet they now called home and their sometimes hectic life of running a country inn.

That's the worst fight we've had yet.

Yet the worst part was that she knew he was right.

How could they make a man commander-in-chief who cannot mount a horse, who drops asleep at a council, and has the very worst morals!

Hopefully things would settle down for them now, but it was comforting knowing that their love was strong enough to survive the worst.

There was no good time for Katie's brother to visit, but this had to be the worst.

We assumed the worst.

The fanaticism of the Meccan is an affair of the purse; the mongrel population (for the town is by no means purely Arab) has exchanged the virtues of the Bedouin for the worst corruptions of Eastern town life, without casting off the ferocity of the desert, and it is hardly possible to find a worse certificate of character than the three parallel gashes on each cheek, called Tashrit, which are the customary mark of birth in the holy city.

Serious frontier warfare with the Indians was followed (1676) by Bacon's Rebellion (see Virginia), brought on by Berkeley's misrule, and during its course all his worst traits became evident.

While the past hurt of a marital or relationship breakup causes many single parents to isolate themselves, this is actually one of the worst things you can do.

Consider bringing enough powdered formula to cover you in the worst case scenario where your formula is confiscated and/or your flights are severely delayed.

Worst of all are sites which disable the Back button, terribly rude, that is.

During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 Visconti Venosta labored to maintain the Europe-an concert, joined Great Britain in preserving Greece from the worst consequences of her folly, and lent moral and material aid in establishing an autonomous government in Crete.

In the worst days of anarchy, in the minority of William or under the no-reign of Robert, the robber-baron could commonly give elaborate reasons for every act of wrong that he did.

Worst of all, the Orthodox tsar occasionally abandoned the decorous flowing robes of his venerated ancestors, and appeared publicly in the unseemly costume of heretical foreigners, whilst his consort, when carried through the streets in a litter, did not conceal her face from the public gaze.

One of the worst forms taken by this ill-will was the oft-revived myth of ritual murder, and later on when the Black Death devastated Europe (1348-1349) the Jews were the victims of an odious charge of well-poisoning.

The material interests of the island were neglected in the scramble for place and power; the finances fell into disorder, and the party which came off worst in the struggle systematically intrigued against the governor-general of the day and conspired with his enemies at Constantinople.

Complete anarchy prevailed at the worst centres of disorder, as Baku and Batum, the imperial authorities being more powerless to preserve even the semblance of order than they were in the interior of Russia.

In 1899 the drought became most intense in the autumn after the corn crops had been harvested, but during the chief period, of growth of the root crops; correspondingly the corn crops of that year rank very well amongst the crops of the decade, but the yield of turnips and swedes was the worst on record.

Selected as minister of public works by Depretis in 1887, and by Crispi in 1893, he contrived to mitigate the worst consequences of Depretis's corruptly extravagant policy, and introduced a sounder system of government participation in public works.

Manichaeans, again, holding their spiritual being to be unaffected by the action of matter, regarded carnal sins as being, at worst, forms of bodily disease.

By August Vieuville's worst fears were realized; he was arrested on the 13th of the month for corrupt practices in office, and the intriguing cardinal who had caused his overthrow became chief minister of Louis His advent was hailed with joy by both the Catholic party and the patriotic party, eager for the overthrow of Habsburg supremacy in Europe.

Third, and worst of all, he had prefixed a preface to the sixth volume, in which he went out of his way to rouse the enmity of the men on whom depended his annual re-election to the post of examiner for the Polytechnic school.

This Makuzu faience, produced by the now justly celebrated Miyagawa ShOzan of Ota (near Yokohama), survives in the form of vases and pots having birds, reptiles, flowers, crustacea and so forth plastered over the surfacespecimens that disgrace the period of their manufacture, and represent probably the worst aberration of Japanese ceramic conception.

The Danish rule had, during the centuries following the Reformation, gradually brought Iceland to the verge of economic ruin; the ancient Parliament of the island, which had degenerated to a mere shadow, had been abolished in 1800; all the revenue of Iceland went into the Danish treasury, and only very small sums were spent for the good of the island; but worst of all was the notorious monopoly which gave away the whole trade of Iceland to a single Danish trading company.

In private character he was amiable and affectionate; his generosity in recognizing the merits of others secured him against the worst shafts of envy; and a life marked by numerous disquietudes was cheered and ennobled by sentiments of sincere piety.

As the king was surrounded by greedy and unscrupulous nobles, among whom his cousins, the sons of Ferdinand, commonly known as the Infantes (princes) of Aragon, were perhaps the worst, his reliance on a favourite who had every motive to be loyal to him is quite, intelligible.

He also rejected the optimism of Leibnitz and Hegel, and placed the most irrational of wills at the base of the worst possible of worlds (see further Schopenhauer).

Robert assumed the style of Clement VII.; and thus Christendom was brought face to face with the worst misfortune conceivable - the Great Schism (1378-1417).

At this point began the second great attachment of his life, his unfortunate infatuation for Madame Recamier, under whose influence he committed the worst blunder of his political career.

During the worst period of her illness she completed her conquest of the good-will of the Russians by declining the religious services of a Protestant pastor, and sending for Simon Todorskiy, the orthodox priest who had been appointed to instruct her in the Greek form of Christianity.

In the former, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the attempt to crush the Polish language and spirit, the Polish element continuously increased, reinforced by immigrants from across the frontier; in the latter the Danish language more than held its own, for similar reasons, but the treaty signed on the 11111 of January 1907 between Prussia and Denmark, as to the status of the Danish optantsin the duchies, removed the worst grievance from which the province was suffering (see SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION).

To the other powers it seemed, at best " verbiage " and " exalted nonsense," at worst an effort of the tsar to establish the hegemony of Russia on the goodwill of the smaller signatory powers.

He possessed some oratorical ability and adopted a very theatrical style of elocution, "tuning his voice and balancing his hands"; and his addresses were a strange medley of solemnity and buffoonery, of clever wit and the wildest absurdity, of able and original disquisition and the worst artifices of the oratorical charlatan.

The domesticated waterbuffalo is sluggish in its movements, and will not work through the heat of the day; but it is a wonderful swimmer, and makes its way through the worst quagmire with ease.

The worst of this method was that the disease thus inoculated did not always prove of a mild character, and in the case of Dr Erasmus Darwin's son the scarlet fever was exceedingly severe and very nearly proved fatal.

Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon, compared with which the worst prison now to be found in the island is a palace.2 His fortitude is the more extraordinary because his domestic feelings were unusually strong.