Worser

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worser \Wors"er\, a.
     Worse. [R.]
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           Thou dost deserve a worser end.          --Beau. & Fl.
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           From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. --Bunyan.
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           A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far
           Than arms, a sullen interval of war.     --Dryden.
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     Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs
           occasionally in the best authors, although commonly
           accounted a vulgarism. It has, at least, the analogy of
           lesser to sanction its issue. See {Lesser}. "The
           experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse
           with ill-chosen associates, by choice or circumstance,
           peculiarly teaches." --Hallam.
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