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"word": "bad comes to worse"
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "worse things happen at sea"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "gweth"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "horší"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "erger"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
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"word": "pli malbona"
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{
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "huonompi"
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "pire"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "plus mauvais"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "fur",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "piês"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "peor"
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "upro cudi",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "უფრო ცუდი"
},
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "უარესი"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "ärger"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "wairsiza",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃𐌹𐌶𐌰"
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hḗssōn",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "ἥσσων"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"word": "χείρων"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "rosszabb"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "peggiore"
},
{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sara ni…warui",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "さらに…悪い"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
"alt": "もっとわるい, motto warui",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
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"roman": "issō warui",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "いっそう悪い"
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"english": "...yori warui",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "より悪い"
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{
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"roman": "aakrɑk cieŋ",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "អាក្រក់ជាង"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "deo nappeun",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "더 나쁜"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "lld",
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"word": "piec"
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"word": "dēterior"
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"roman": "pološ",
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"word": "полош"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "worse"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "verre"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "dårligere"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "nn",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "verre"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "dårlegare"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "pièger"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "wiersa"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "badtar",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "بدتر"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gorszy"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "pior"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "mender"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "pês"
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "pêr"
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"roman": "xúže",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "ху́же"
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"roman": "xúdšij",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "ху́дший"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "pejus"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "peus"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ло̏шијӣ"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "го̏рӣ"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"tags": [
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"word": "lȍšijī"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
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"word": "gȍrī"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "peggiu"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "horší"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "sl",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "slabši"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "peor"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "värre"
},
{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "sämre"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "lalong masama"
},
{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "เลวกว่า"
},
{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "แย่กว่า"
},
{
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "híršyj",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "гі́рший"
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{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "xấu hơn"
},
{
"_dis1": "60 40",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "tệ hơn"
},
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "comparative form of bad",
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"word": "peyeu"
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"_dis1": "60 40",
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"word": "gwaeth"
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"text": "She was very ill last week but this week she’s worse.",
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"text": "He drives worse than anyone I know.",
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"ref": "2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:",
"text": "Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.",
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"_dis1": "62 29 5 3 2",
"code": "hy",
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"word": "ավելի վատ"
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"english": "Doctors will help me settle everything properly. There should be no problem. But if it becomes very bad, then I will have to use the ancient way of giving birth at home. No one knows if this can suddenly happen!",
"ref": "2012 January 20, 楊千樺 [Miriam Yeung], quotee, “楊千嬅最壞打算屋企生”, in 東方日報:",
"text": "「醫生幫我搞好晒！應該冇問題卦！不過如果好worse嘅話，惟有用最古老方法喺屋企生囉！咁突發都估計唔到架！」",
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"text": "「逼到你伸開隻手就掂到對方（鄰床病人），好worse㗎嘛。」",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 May 31, 阿然, quotee, “【香港的傷痕】一名大學生的四件事——上Gear、被捕、求醫、見官”, in 獨立媒體:",
"text": "「如果我變返做勇武，咁情況一定好worse（糟糕），有啲嘢令我睇唔過眼。」",
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},
{
"ref": "2022 May 27, 黃世英, quotee, “【母親節】乳癌化療期再染新冠撐過痛楚 媽媽：只想三代同堂樂聚天倫”, in 香港經濟日報 TOPick:",
"text": "自己當時懷孕近九個月，而疫情嚴重，不方便外出，一想到不能探望、買物資送給在家隔離的媽媽，心裡非常擔憂，睇唔到佢幾辛苦，我又大住肚，嗰日喊咗一個朝早，覺得好無助，世界好worse（糟糕），公立醫院冇晒資源。",
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"english": "Doctors will help me settle everything properly. There should be no problem. But if it becomes very bad, then I will have to use the ancient way of giving birth at home. No one knows if this can suddenly happen!",
"ref": "2012 January 20, 楊千樺 [Miriam Yeung], quotee, “楊千嬅最壞打算屋企生”, in 東方日報:",
"text": "「醫生幫我搞好晒！應該冇問題卦！不過如果好worse嘅話，惟有用最古老方法喺屋企生囉！咁突發都估計唔到架！」",
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"text": "「逼到你伸開隻手就掂到對方（鄰床病人），好worse㗎嘛。」",
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"ref": "2020 May 31, 阿然, quotee, “【香港的傷痕】一名大學生的四件事——上Gear、被捕、求醫、見官”, in 獨立媒體:",
"text": "「如果我變返做勇武，咁情況一定好worse（糟糕），有啲嘢令我睇唔過眼。」",
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"ref": "2022 May 27, 黃世英, quotee, “【母親節】乳癌化療期再染新冠撐過痛楚 媽媽：只想三代同堂樂聚天倫”, in 香港經濟日報 TOPick:",
"text": "自己當時懷孕近九個月，而疫情嚴重，不方便外出，一想到不能探望、買物資送給在家隔離的媽媽，心裡非常擔憂，睇唔到佢幾辛苦，我又大住肚，嗰日喊咗一個朝早，覺得好無助，世界好worse（糟糕），公立醫院冇晒資源。",
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"word": "plus mauvais"
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"sense": "comparative form of bad",
"word": "უფრო ცუდი"
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{
"code": "fa",
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{
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"word": "pior"
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"word": "mender"
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{
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"code": "rm",
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"word": "เลวกว่า"
},
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