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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.

Now there's old Sapperson — never touched liquor as far as I know, but a worthlesser human never lived.

1898, Opie Percival Read, The Waters of Caney Fork: A Romance of Tennessee, page 228

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.

1998, Michael V. Angrosino, Opportunity House: Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation, page 55