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 Translation for 'at worst' from English to French
SYNO at the worst | at worst
au pire {adv}at worst
Partial Matches
s'attendre au pireto expect the worst
éviter le pireto avoid the worst
redouter le pireto fear the worst
redouter le pireto assume the worst
s'attendre au pireto anticipate the worst
les pires {noun}the worst ones
le pire exemple {m}the worst example
scénario {m} catastropheworst-case scenario
pire cas {m} de figureworst-case scenario
se préparer au pireto prepare for the worst
avoir passé le cap [loc.]to be over the worst [idiom]
C'est là son pire défaut.That's its worst defect.
vêt.
être du plus mauvais effet [vêtement, remarque]
to be in the worst possible taste
C'est son pire ennemi. [loc.]He's his own worst enemy. [idiom]
à {prep}at
au lever du soleil {adv}at sunrise
à la tombée de la nuit {adv}at nightfall
au coucher du soleil {adv}at sunset
présentement {adv}at present
tout court {adv}at all
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Usage Examples English
  • However, trading a team that had been, at worst, the third-best team in the league for a lesser version of one of the worst teams in the league raised questions about the USFL's credibility—especially in Chicago.
  • Typically one finds simple relations describing the antenna far-field patterns, often involving trigonometric functions or at worst Fourier or Hankel transform relationships between the antenna current distributions and the observed far-field patterns.
  • The use of radio frequencies for communication creates pollution from the point of view of astronomers, at best, creating noise or, at worst, totally blinding the astronomical community for certain types of observations of very faint objects.
  • More generally, Fish finds the idea of radical culture as an oppositional ideal in which context is continuously refined or rejected impracticable at best, and impossible at worst.
  • For example, the Manichaeans held that their spiritual being was unaffected by the action of matter and regarded carnal sins as being, at worst, forms of bodily disease.

  • At the very least, Standard had refused to help Bolivia in its direst hour during the war, and at worst it was guilty of illegal activities contrary to the wishes and interests of the Bolivian government.
  • According to the consensus environmental protection was considered at best a necessary evil, and at worst a temporary nuisance.
  • Ranavalona's European contemporaries generally condemned her policies and characterized her as a tyrant at best and insane at worst.
  • It is designed to attract large corporate partners, or at worst, non-"big box" retailers.
  • While a tunnel had been included in the 1835 Great Western Railway Act, contemporary engineers considered the construction of Box Tunnel to be an impossibility at worst and a dangerous undertaking at best.

  • In practice, the differences between privateers and pirates were often at best subtle and at worst a matter of interpretation.
  • Thus, by the start of the seventeenth century a play like Everyman would be regarded "as at best a waste of time and at worst a sinful, 'popish' excess."
  • The death rate in Stalin's gulags was 30% at worst, he wrote, while in the extermination camps he estimated it to be 90–98%.
  • Taoists took a broader, more naturalistic/metaphysical view on the relationship between humankind and the Universe and considered social rules to be at best a derivative reflection of the natural and spontaneous interactions between people and at worst calcified structure that inhibited naturalness and created conflict.
  • Unlike many philosophers, social critics and activists who place a moral value on preservation of natural systems, transhumanists see the very concept of the specifically natural as problematically nebulous at best and an obstacle to progress at worst.

  • Whereas pitting usually leads to unsightly surfaces and, at worst, to perforation of the stainless sheet, failure by SCC can have severe consequences.
  • "The Washington Post" reviewer Patrick Anderson described his plots as "rambling at best and incoherent at worst" (notoriously, even Chandler did not know who murdered the chauffeur in "The Big Sleep") and Anderson criticized Chandler's treatment of black, female, and homosexual characters, calling him a "rather nasty man at times".
  • Such policies usually provoke user protest and foot-dragging at best and hostility at worst.
  • At the very least, Milken's actions were a serious breach of Drexel's internal regulations, and the money managers had breached their fiduciary duty to their clients. At worst, the warrants could have been construed as bribes to the money managers to influence decisions they made for their funds.
  • It is worth noting that the odds for the player in American roulette are even worse, as the bet profitability is at worst [...] , and never better than [...].

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