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in the worst way
Idioms and Phrases
Desperately, very much, as in He wanted a new trumpet in the worst way . This usage replaced worst kind . [ Colloquial ; second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
"They never have been, they don’t answer to anyone. It’s hypocrisy in the worst way. They’re living a lie."
He wrote that he saw Appalachians “reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible” and that they were products of “a culture that encourages social decay instead of counteracting it”.
She called it “a good goal” but said Feige went “about it in the worst way possible” and caused “insurmountable harm to the brand.”
“We wanted to play it in the worst way for a lot of reasons,” FAU coach Dusty May said before the 96-95 win over Arizona on Saturday.
“But that’s a good sign for us. Hoping for Geno’s sake — he wants to play in the worst way.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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