单词 | worst-intentioned |
释义 | > as lemmasworst-intentioned C1. Parasynthetic, as worst-humoured, worst-intentioned, worst-natured, worst-surfaced, worst-willed adjs. ΚΠ c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 105 Warst willid traytoris [L. malignissimi proditores]. 1577 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians vii. f. 45v Euen the wickeddest and woorst natured of vs all, shall of force haue some remorse or hartbyting. 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 103 When I consider that our Country-men are none of the worst natur'd. a1680 Earl of Rochester Allusion to Horace in Poems (1984) 60 The best good Man with the worst natur'd Muse. 1774 in O. Goldsmith Retaliation (ed. 4, 2nd issue) Postscr. 22 Thou best humour'd man with the worst humour'd muse! 1837 G. D'Aguilar Let. 12 Jan. in R. R. Madden Lit. Life & Corr. Countess of Blessington (1855) III. 312 It is as crude and unfashioned as the worst-natured critic could desire. 1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xxxiv. 231 The greediest and worst-intentioned rascals in the world. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 3/1 From Blois to Chartres was the worst-surfaced road we came across. 1960 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 80 215/2 A properly conducted inquiry into one of the worst-mannered brawls which has ever disfigured the history of Classical scholarship. 2007 University Wire (Nexis) 13 July The worst-haired Mississippi politician since Benjamin Humphreys. < as lemmas |
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