A few pinches, kicks and slaps; at worst a few hard knocks.

Colonel Musgrave would marry the girl and make Patricia, at worst, content.

Hazel felt disinclined to fly from what was at worst a possibility.

In fact, the link is tenuous at best and irrelevant at worst.

She had never thought that, at worst, she could not go back.

It was down 60 points at worst, before stabilising as London closed.

Calling it God is at best unhelpful and at worst perniciously misleading.

But the rest has proved at best neutral, at worst plain destructive.

Kim's charity auctions are dodgy at best and downright unethical at worst.

Or, at worst, created a Web of mere pixie dust and flowers.

Lowry regarded it as nonsense at best, prideful and blasphemous at worst.

Anyone who over-complicates things is at best insecure and at worst stupid.

But at worst most were only stupid, gullible, and careless, not crooked.

Words without action are at best flannel and at worst represent simple contempt.

However, this strategy produced at best stagnation and at worst disaster.

Violence has been at worst since 2006, the bloodiest period since Taliban's ouster.