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1652 J. Goodwin et al. Έιρηνομαχια 7 The vilest and worst-deserving men.

1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother ii. i What Titles had they had,..if Nature had not Strove hard to thrust the worst-deserving first?

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius xxxii. 170 His majesty's worst-affected subjects.

1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 11 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1680 The worst-bred man in Europe, if a lady let fall her fan, would certainly take it up and give it to her.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 356 In the worst formed bodies..there lies an immortal spirit.

1778 T. Pasley Jrnl. 20 Aug. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 38 This morning..found about 10 of the worst-going Vessels of the Convoy near us.

1816 A. Lewis Rhoda II. i. i. 27 The worst-dressed girls of my acquaintance.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert xii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 308 Waiting for the slowest and worst manned vessels.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 15 The hardest worked, the worst paid, and, too often, the worst used, class of the community.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House ix. 82 I thought him the worst-looking dog I had ever beheld.

1857 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 318 The worst-used woman I ever knew.

1871 J. S. Le Fanu Checkmate I. 276 I believe that we are the worst-governed and the worst-managed people on earth.

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 55 The worst-damaged plate was taken out, re-rolled, and replaced.

1951 K. Amis Lett. (2000) 268 She is the worst-equipped person to be a parent I've ever met.

1976 ‘Z. Stone’ Modigliani Scandal i. ii. 20 It was the art world's worst-kept secret that dealers sometimes bought their own pictures in order to stimulate demand for a young artist.

1989 B. Head Tales Tenderness & Power (1990) 23 He attracted her eye for a number of reasons. He was the worst-dressed man in the crowd.

2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Apr. 62/1 No poet of our time has been more influential, and yet with this poet a counter-anthology of worst-loved poems could be printed.