all the worse

Example Sentences

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“I was stupid to trust her so easily. I thought she might want help, for her cancer. I thought she might feel differently about it all, after what happened to Rain. But apparently that makes it all the worse, because we’re the first ones to leave after what happened to him. Based on what she said, it sounds like they’re eager to make us come back. And I’m scared about what that means they might do.”

From Literature

That made the shock at checkout all the worse.

From The Wall Street Journal

Their text-focused and commissary subsidiaries are also invaluable for incarcerated journalists and writers getting their work to the public—which makes it all the worse that these products, despite all the cash they collect, continue to peddle fragile, unreliable, treacherous service.

From Slate

“If they’re throwing doses away, or if those doses can’t really be given to anyone anymore, that’s all the worse.”

From Science Magazine

Short of that, a wide-brimmed hat and water bottle were essential survival gear as temperatures soared above 95 degrees amid a National Weather Service heat advisory, with the afternoon humidity making conditions at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center all the worse.

From Washington Post