worser

That were my ſtate farre worſer then it is, I would not wed her for a mine of Gold

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

Spencer ere it flow thrice at London bridge, / London I feare will heare of worſer newes.

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act II

Whether Flower, kneaded and baked as ſoon as it comes from the Mill, whilſt ’tis yet warm, yields blacker and worſer Bread?

1674, Divers Rural and Oeconomical Inquiries, recommended to Observation and Tryal, in Philosophical Transactions, vol. 9

Creon. What worser ill is now to follow this?

1911, Joseph Edward Harry, The Antigone of Sophocles (Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company), page 65

Things went from worse to worser after Truss’s Wednesday night appearance before the 1922, which you might know is that weirdo committee where they bang the desks and honk in-group gibberish like it’s Hogwarts for grownups and their house has just won a flying pensions-crashing match.

2022 October 14, Marina Hyde, “So farewell, Kwasi. Your career died so Liz Truss’s might live for at least 15 more minutes”, in The Guardian