| 单词 | least worst |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleast worst least worst adj. first in order of preference out of a group or set of options which are all considered to be bad or undesirable; (used ironically) best. ΚΠ 1750 T. Gordon Cordial Low-spirits 62 Omnium feminarum maritus, & omnium viroum [sic] uxor [= the husband of all women and the wife of all men], is the least worst Character that can be given him [sc. Cæsar]. 1804 A. Murray Bruce's Trav. Source Nile (ed. 2) II. 75 The Galla who border on Amhara are much the worst of all the Galla, and the least worst are the..Guangoul Galla. 1859 Brit. Q. Rev. July 244 Those States are in the least worst condition who have contrived the most to escape from her [sc. Austria's] influence. 1916 Amer. Fruits July 12/2 The mountaineer when he was asked, where is the best hotel: ‘Stranger, there aint no best I reckon, but the least worst is over yonder.’ 1984 Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 11/1 The opinion..that BBC-2 is ‘the least worst channel we've got’. 2010 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 12 Sept. f3/3 A race between those two is no race at all; voters would merely be left to pick their least worst option. < as lemmas |
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