worse (n.)
worse (v.)
worse (adv.)
worse (adj.)
- aggravated
- altered
- annoyed
- augmented
- better
- broken
- burned
- busted
- changeable
- changed
- checked
- converted
- cracked
- crazed
- cut
- damaged
- degenerate
- deviant
- divergent
- enhanced
- enlarged
- exasperated
- harmed
- hurt
- impaired
- imperfect
- improved
- increased
- injured
- intensified
- irritated
- lacerated
- magnified
- mangled
- modified
- mutant
- mutilated
- provoked
- qualified
- reformed
- renewed
- rent
- revived
- revolutionary
- scorched
- shattered
- slashed
- smashed
- soured
- split
- sprung
- subversive
- torn
- transformed
- unmitigated
- weakened
- worsened
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
The better day, the worse deed.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
All thing is the woorse for the wearing.
A hat not much the worse for wear.
Might have gone further and have fared worse.
O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
O, no! the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse:
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder," and attributed to Talleyrand.
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
