worthlesser
English
Adjective
worthlesser
- (nonstandard) comparative form of worthless: more worthless
- 1892, Henry Adams, letter, in Part 1 of Supplement to the Letters of Henry Adams: Letters Omitted from the Harvard University Press Edition of the Letters of Henry Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1989.
- I let myself vaguely hope that you are all right, and that perhaps some day, when I am still older and worthlesser than now, I may see you again — at a distance.
- 1898, Opie Percival Read, The Waters of Caney Fork: A Romance of Tennessee, page 228:
- Now there's old Sapperson — never touched liquor as far as I know, but a worthlesser human never lived.
- 1998, Michael V. Angrosino, Opportunity House: Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation, page 55:
- The two kids caught fish to eat and they helped Uncle Frank cook stuff. I tried to help out by washing up the pots but I got lost finding the stream and they had to come get me. "I'm worthlesser than a cockroach." That's what I told Uncle Frank.
- 2016, Johnny Saldana, Matt Omasta, Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life, page 348:
- Most of them guys was even more worthlesser than Daddy.
- 1892, Henry Adams, letter, in Part 1 of Supplement to the Letters of Henry Adams: Letters Omitted from the Harvard University Press Edition of the Letters of Henry Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1989.
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