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Bookmark or Share- Common phrases for something that appears good but is actually bad(Maybe you were wanting something much worse than being merely disappointing, but bad is a rather vague word, so it's hard to know for sure. If that's the case, though, I'm sorry about this hollow bunny of an answer.)
- Words for ordinal 5-point scale from normal to severeWhat are good words for a five-point ordinal scale? The scale should represent increasing severity of disease, where 1 is normal and 5 is severe. I thought of the following words (with their value...
- grammar - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeThere was no way but to comparativize an inherently comparative worse in his situation – try using worse in that sentence. The Bard used the logical worser because that's precisely the semantic needed there. Note the POS: it's a noun formed from an adjective, like "the poorer."
- What is "For the better or worse"? - English Language & Usage Stack ..."for worse" means something happened and the outcome is bad. "We re-elected our president, for worse." Putting them together, it means the result can go either way. "The new legislation has passed, for better or worse." Meaning, it was probably a controversial law, we don't know what the outcome will be, but it has happened.
- idioms - "Worse comes to worst" or "worst comes to worst" - English ...Check out Google's n-gram viewer of all English usage, British English usage, and American English usage, and you get mostly, "Worse comes to Worst" in American, "Worst comes to Worst" in British: goo.gl/N5cfEK You'd have to use different tenses (...were to come to worst), constructions (with/without article) to really nail it down, but those ...
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