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worse light
n. (context figuratively English) A way of presenting or perceiving something such that it appears less favourably than by an alternative presentation or perception.
Usage examples of "worse light".
To use force would be carrying things too far, and would only place the Patriarch, in a worse light.
At the same time it will give us a chance to put the Terrans in a still worse light with Imperator Gonozal VIII!