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Example sentences for "still worse"

  • To crowd in a single member of a period different subjects, is still worse than to crowd them into one period.

  • But the first example is bad English, and its explanation is still worse.

  • If I have chosen a period of great extravagance, it will serve to show modern extravagance in a still worse light; especially as the pay of the navy, the army, and the revenue officers has not increased since that time.

  • It cannot exist in confined channels, and necessarily breaks out by regular or irregular means, that defeat the attempt: and to succeed would be still worse.

  • Still worse, the country was plunged into gloomy forebodings by the President's call for three hundred thousand new troops.

  • Still more old-fashioned, and in still worse taste is it to ask your guests if they will take "soup or fish.

  • Dear sir, I am forced to do a very awkward thing, and send you back one of your letters, and, what is still worse, opened.

  • The condition of artificers is, if possible, still worse.

  • The policy of Portugal is, in this respect, the same as the ancient policy of Spain, with regard to all its colonies, except Pernambucco and Marannon; and with regard to these it has lately adopted a still worse.

  • If the crown lands were more extensive, it is probable, they would be still worse managed.

  • In such cases we are apt either to become enemies, or, which is still worse in the case of woman, to become too friendly.

  • While such was the state of the communications in the immediate neighbourhood of the metropolis of Scotland, matters were, if possible, still worse in the remoter parts of the country.

  • North of Inverness, matters were, if possible, still worse.

  • Wellington reported to Bathurst that nearly a million sterling in money had been appropriated by the rank and file of the army, and, still worse, that so dazzling a triumph had "totally annihilated all order and discipline".

  • The expedition to Egypt, planned in combination with the expedition to the Dardanelles, ended in a still worse disaster.

  • The great whig peers were most anxious to keep him out of the cabinet without losing his support, or, still worse, provoking his active hostility.

  • Still worse," began young Eisenschlicht, "is the case with our comedies.

  • If the tyranny of the majority is bad a tyranny of the minority is still worse.

  • In Australia this has become a regular practice; and a still worse feature is that Members of Parliament have free access to public departments to promote class and local interests.

  • In matters of foreign policy the case is still worse.

  • Yet we have seen little girls brought to see the painful tragedy of the Gamester--or still worse, the dreary comedy of the Stranger.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cotton paper; external bodies; greet them; ordinary cases; still existing; still farther; still further; still held; still here; still kept; still lives; still living; still loved; still possess; still possible; still remain; still remains; still smaller; still standing; still staring; still they; still upon; still worse; the children; thou blessed; whether true