| 单词 | worse than |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworse than P1. worse than: modifying an adjective, noun, or (occasionally) verb, to indicate a greater degree of badness or severity than the modified word expresses. Cf. more adv. 5a(b). ΚΠ a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) 741 Ȝe wers [a1425 BL Add. 32578 wars, ?c1450 Sion Coll. London wors] þan wode, how dar ȝe negh þis stede? 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 175 Oh keepe me from there worse than killing lust. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 77 Brutish villaine, worse then brutish. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 418 Besides thir other worse then heathenish crimes. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 893 By worse then hostile deeds. View more context for this quotation a1746 F. Hutcheson Syst. Moral Philos. (1755) II. ii. i. 155 Were the restraints of laws removed, and multitudes depraved by bad example, satisfying the worse than brutal inclination,..monstrous and unnatural passions-would arise. 1799 W. Wordsworth Ruth 164 O Ruth! I have been worse than dead. 1867 A. T. Drane Christian Schools II. vi. 253 Among the scanty relics that escaped the hands of these worse than Vandals. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 18 Jan. 3/2 He deliberately chose to worse than waste his opportunities and his talents. 1902 Public 2 Aug. 310/3 Is there any sufficient reason why these worse-than-anarchists should not be hanged? 1933 E. A. Powell Slanting Lines of Steel xviii. 287 The indifferent food and the worse than indifferent service. 1951 Managing Small Forest (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1989) 19 Burning farther than that from field edges is worse than wasted. 2003 New Yorker 10 Nov. 128/3 The Wachowskis have a worse than tin ear for dialogue (tin-plated, perhaps). < as lemmas |
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