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Worser

Worser \Wors"er\, a. Worse. [R.]

Thou dost deserve a worser end.
--Beau. & Fl.

From worser thoughts which make me do amiss.
--Bunyan.

A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war.
--Dryden.

Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs occasionally in the best authors, although commonly accounted a vulgarism. It has, at least, the analogy of lesser to sanction its issue. See Lesser. ``The experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen associates, by choice or circumstance, peculiarly teaches.''
--Hallam.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
worser

double comparative; see worse + -er (2). Attested from late 15c. and common 16c.-17c. Noun worsers "(one's) inferiors" is from 1580s.

Wiktionary
worser

a. (context nonstandard English) worse.

Wikipedia
Worser

Worser may refer to:

  • Worser Bay, a bay in New Zealand
  • Worser Creek, a stream in Texas

Usage examples of "worser".

Brer Wolf grin worser, and his tooth looked so long and shone so white, and his gum look so red, that Brer Rabbit hush up and stay still.

I was brung up, but I thinks dat good teachers and work is what de colored race needs worser than anything else.

De way I say dey worser, I used to have to be back at such en such a time, if I went off, but now dey go anytime dey want to en dey comes back anytime dey want to.

I calls back, de people in a worser fix den when I used to get 25 cents a day.

But she knew her worser half would not give over until she had her half-baked way.

Demoness Mentia, my soulless worser half, who represents what I was like before I got half-souled, except that she has no problem with vocational.

Metria, amazed by the assurance and sanity of her crazy worser self, which was not at all true to form, subsided.

Her worser self had good judgment in crazy situations, and she would have to trust that.

Looked like he enjoyed the little wind and water wash along the landing that was rasping our nerves worser than a skeeter whine.

Murder belongs to the cops, and for better or for worser, NIS is the cops.

I intend But to divert myself in doing this From worser thoughts which make me do amiss.

Huns, who would sweep us away from the face of the earth, or with the Franks or the Burgundians, who would quell us into being something worser than they be.

Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality.

Forgot about shaking off the ants after they ate the lice and got bit worser than anyone I ever saw.

And come to that, you done worked on enough Shawnees to know mosta the damn fucking common things them fucking spies done to them they took for slaves and the worser things they done to the ones as was too old or too young or sick or crippled up, too.