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1577 N. Breton Wks. Young Wyt f. 32 A man wurse naturde then a beast.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 20 Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapelesse euery where.

1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 143 These differ from the former..as a worse Natured Fool from a better.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. ii. 10 My poor sister is not naturally good-humour'd... She must therefore..have appear'd to great disadvantage, when she aim'd to be worse-temper'd than ordinary.

1873 L. O. Pike Hist. Crime II. vii. 138 Whether the better or the worse natured woman became the reputed witch.

1921 Forum Jan. 37 On Armistice Day in London some of the decent women of that City spanked Sylvia Pankhurst's ill-mannered and worse-principled crew.

2016 Guardian (Nexis) 31 May Jon Snow has said he cannot remember a ‘worse-tempered or more abusive, more boring UK campaign’ than that for the EU referendum.