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1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ vii. 109 These are the most usual ways of Grafting, some other there are, but they differ so little from the former, and where they differ its rather for the worse, and therefore not worthy the mentioning.

1690 W. Harris Remarks Affairs & Trade Eng. & Ireland iii. 32 When those made in Ireland came to be compared with the true Colchester Bayes in Spain, they differed so much for the worse, that on a sudden the Irish Weavers lost their Trade.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. iv. 53 He said, I differed indeed from other Taboos, being much more cleanly, and not altogether so deformed, but in point of real Advantage, he thought I differed for the worse.

1779 S. Johnson Lives Eng. Poets I. 200 If they differ from the verses of others, they differ for the worse.

1831 R. Jones Ess. Distrib. Wealth v. 147 Cottier rents, then, evidently differ for the worse in this respect from serf and metayer rents.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 83 The situation of the Quaker differed from that of other dissenters, and differed for the worse.

1915 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 42 The Will to Power does not perceptibly differ from the Will to Live, or, if it does, it differs for the worse, as being a less universal concept.

1965 Harvard Law Rev. 78 1516 If the mental hospital to which the blameless one is dispatched differs at all from a penitentiary, it differs for the worse.

2004 R. J. Taylor et al. Relig. in Lives of Afr. Amer. viii. 190 The health profile of African Americans, on average, differs for the worse from that of U.S. whites.