make matters worse

phrase

: to make a situation worse

He laughed at her and then, to make matters worse, he accused her of lying!

Examples of make matters worse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To make matters worse, transformation approaches also face two additional noneconomic barriers to adoption. — Steve Strauss, The Conversation, 22 July 2026

To make matters worse, the team also polled people on what behaviors annoy them most about other beachgoers. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2026

To make matters worse, some relatives of missing children have received false information claiming the children were rescued alive, are staying in shelters for displaced residents or were transferred to other parts of the country. — Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026

To make matters worse, the bench was already claiming another penalty after Alexis Mac Allister looked to have slightly pulled Hamdy Fathy down moments before. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

Rhymes for make matters worse

• adverse
• averse
• coerce
• disburse
• disperse
• diverse
• immerse
• inverse
• obverse
• perverse
• rehearse
• reverse