How to Use at worst in a Sentence

at worst

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• Because the midsummer sun will give you one heck of a shorts tan line at best, a scorcher of a burn at worst.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
• Players, coaches, and analysts all agreed that the red card was harsh at best, and inaccurately given at worst.
  — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
• To think that risk disappears when hiring an expert is, at best, naïve and, at worst, strategically negligent.
  — Vicente Pava, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Five-time World Cup winners Brazil have the attackers for it, but their midfield and defence were at best meandering, at worst anaemic.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 7 July 2026
• Five-time World Cup winners Brazil have the attackers for it, but their midfield and defence were at best meandering, at worst anaemic.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 11 July 2026
• Historically, Western norms during the 19th and 20th centuries held that to not eat meat is odd at best, and suspicious at worst.
  — David Rooney, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
• But this narrative of the USMNT winning formula is, at worst, wrong and at best, incomplete.
  — Michael Morris, Time, 1 July 2026