worsification

plural worsifications

1. countablehumorousnonstandarduncountableThe process by which something becomes worse.

   Near-synonym: shittification

   3 more examples

   I shouldn't mind these well-intentioned worsifications. But I just don't believe they happen.

   1946, James Agate, Ego 8: Continuing the Autobiography, Sydney, N.S.W. […]: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd., page 229

   I'm not a xenophobe, Musette. I've seen what's happened to my home and its environs and I don't like it. In spite of all the worsification and uglyfying and franchisation that's happened here, it's still better than elsewhere.

   1999 September 4, Icono Clast, “we just got here”, in ba.consumers (Usenet)

   I know I could improve. Just during phases of intense worsification there is no HOPE of improving. Big difference : )

   2002 June 30, BHaber, “disaster streak”, in rec.games.go (Usenet)

   Antonyms: goodification

1. archaichumorousuncountableThe act of composing poetic verse poorly; bad versification.

   Since we have found fault with some of what we may be allowed to call the worsification, we should say that the prose work is done conscientiously and neatly.

   1849 December, [J. R. Lowell], “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, in The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, volume III, number IX (review), page 51