Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever going to stop jabbering, when suddenly he does just that. Suddenly a paragraph intrudes, or a sentence, or an epigrammatic phrase, and makes you stop and think, and sticks with you and bounces about in your head for several hours, or even days. At his worst, in his most inaccurate, uninformed, out-dated, and even puerile moments, he manages to come up with something more worth saying than the collected works of many a solemn and over-cultured critic...
...your stupid wiseguy doing his worst to deny Nature equals your clever fool who did his best to possess...
...Adam (adapted from Pat Frank's novel by Jack Kirkland; produced by Mr. Kirkland) was the season's final play and worst experience. It concerned the one man in the world who had not been left sterile by an atomic explosion. Plugging doggedly away, Adapter Kirkland (Tobacco Road) left no phrase unturned that might possibly call forth a snicker. But Mr. Adam was worse than vulgar; it was almost maddeningly boring. By week's end it had followed the season to the grave...
...painting Mr. Eliot it has been my endeavor to convey . . . some vestige of all that. So you will see in his mask, drained of too hearty blood, a gazing strain, a patient contraction, the body slightly tilted (in the immaculate armor of sartorial convention) in resigned anticipation of the worst...
...that Bill Sykes is as villainous as Fagin any reason to deny the poisonous hate expressed in the picture. For it is well-known that the majority group need never fear lest one of its members misbehave; whilst the persecuted minority is always categorized by the behavior of its worst rather than best, members...