In the 1920s, British historian Charles Grey savaged the American adventurer as an unhinged embellisher at best, and a liar at worst. |
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An assessment that has since been revealed as naive at best and base deception at worst. |
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He made a strategic error and was at best guilty of political naivety, at worst of incompetence. |
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The first views her at best as a mad, talentless manipulator and at worst as a murderer. |
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Yet the support of the people of York is at best equivocal and at worst non-existent. |
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There are areas of conventional science which are at best misguided and at worst fraudulent. |
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He took council with advisers who, at best, were talentless and, at worst, dishonest. |
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Most mass mailers have links posted on each message you can follow to opt-out, and at worst, you could always change your e-mail address. |
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The premise remains interesting, but the plot is cluttered with schemes and counter-schemes that seem unrealistic at best and pointless at worst. |
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He presents his advisors and confidantes as ignorant dupes at best and scoundrels at worst. |
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The religiosity at the core of his films has always transformed his leading ladies into masochistic saints at best, abused playthings at worst. |
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At best, they were mediocre and at worst, merely a repeat of some of his past successes. |
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A vast number of them are primitive tribalists at best and racists at worst. |
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Infractions from the standard can only invite misinterpretation at best, catastrophe at worst. |
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If you overload the circuit, you will cause the circuit breaker to trip at best, and a fire at worst. |
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It was an indulgence of high spirits or, at worst, a vulgar exhibit of personal vanity and artistic vacuity. |
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On my scale of morality, the selling of charlie to City high-flyers and celebrities is at worst venal, and possibly not immoral at all. |
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He and his friends indeed are brutally unfeeling at best and hateful at worst. |
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Restricting access marginalizes youth, defining them as social nonentities at best, irritations at worst. |
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Most efforts seem to have been at best superficial, at worst downright non-existent. |
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Generally, economic growth is stagnant at best, and at worst it goes into contraction. |
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There were widespread concerns that the machines and the equipment they carried were at best old-fashioned and at worst obsolete. |
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Instead, you have to deal with new cellmates, who are strangers at best and troublemakers sent to keep you company at worst. |
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The main points of the manifesto leave us in doubt that New Labour is at best a centre party and at worst, the Tories, except more organised. |
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At best they were footnotes on the contrary theme, at worst outright obfuscation. |
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The attitude toward the poor is at best one of official indifference, and at worst outright criminalization. |
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Her oversights in the article were glaring at best, offensive and insulting at worst. |
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It's hard to ascribe the more extreme hatred directed toward her as anything besides, at best, bitterness, and at worst something much more icky. |
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This time last year I seemed at best a guest and at worst an interloper in a foreign space. |
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The heat involved in cooking causes water to form on walls and ceilings and can, at worst, lead to patches of damp and mould. |
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Whereas in my first preregistration job I was on call for 108 hours a week, nowadays I might at worst be on for 80 hours. |
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Asthma is at best an annoying condition, and at worst a debilitating, even deadly disease. |
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Finally, of course, are those religious advocates who regard us as at best profaning the sacred, or at worst promoting the work of Satan. |
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By all accounts, it was an isolated incident involving at worst only one or two people in a crowd of 1,600, so it must be kept in proportion. |
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And if you goof up, at worst, you can shave your head and be riding another fashion hair trend for a while. |
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If you punch one hole in a boat, at best, the boat will never sail properly again and, at worst, the whole boat will sink. |
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It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful. |
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At best, voters think the government was economical with the truth, at worst they believe it deliberately lied. |
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Usually they're in the forms of ancestors, mostly benevolent and at worst sternly disapproving. |
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First, this is a repertoire book, but there are key parts of the repertoire that are drawish at best and a downright forced draw at worst. |
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However, I think we have a ways to go in terms of convincing actuaries that in fact e-mail is at worst a wash and probably a benefit. |
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For many managers, passing judgment on another human being is an awkward exercise at best, a breeding ground for rancor and hostility at worst. |
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Further, this conception renders purposeful art at best aimless and at worst nonsensical. |
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Many devastated householders are now trying to sort out homes that are at best damp and at worst in need of serious building work. |
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Growth for the first six months of 2001 is at best flat and at worst down a few percentage points. |
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He said the problem was at best causing an obstruction and at worst could cause a serious accident. |
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Even the government now accepts that this will not happen, but might at worst delay enlargement by some months. |
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The appeal was not set down until 17th June, so at best the application was just under two months late, and at worst three months late. |
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I hope that at worst they are being mercenary and irresponsible and thoughtless. |
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To abandon the barely existent rights that animals are afforded is irresponsible at best, and sadistic at worst. |
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It was unfortunate that the Bulgarian summer this year was temperamental at best, and downright terrible at worst. |
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A narrow focus on electioneering is at best ineffective, and at worst disastrous. |
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I believe that much of the thinking promoted by the liberal left is lazy at best and downright irresponsible at worst. |
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Marian Wilkinson's reporting in the SMH is at best ordinary, at worst dreadful. |
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Even for a lay person such as I am, this goal seems misguided, at best, and seriously damaging at worst. |
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He would seem to be offering a kind of antinomian horology at worst, at best an unctuous pragmatism of local mores. |
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He was at best merely an aphorist, and at worst an opportunist who used selective silence as a means of self-promotion. |
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The right is sounding the call to arms, while the left, as always, is offering excuses at best, and at worst, apologies. |
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Pretty much everyone looked at them as fascist scum at worst and pompous throwbacks at best. |
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Britain's role in this affair has been at best ambiguous and at worst shameful. |
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It says allergies are increasingly common and can be at best inconvenient but at worst fatal. |
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All serious analysts of crime deride this as at best ignorant and at worst dishonest. |
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If you're a journalist for any period of time you get used to them and find them at best tedious and at worst laughable. |
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So far those attempts have been at worst disastrous and at best meaningless. |
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The stock market's recent bearish reversal in mid-June reflects the new reality of, at best a weak recovery in 2010, and at worst, stagnation or a double dip. |
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That appears, at best, to be feeble, at worst to have atrophied altogether. |
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The Hannity-esque delusion of a post-racial America is ill-informed at best and bigoted at worst. |
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The deal, critics charge, was at best a bad one and at worst, a callous political move. |
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It's at best a guilty pleasure and at worst your typical teen flick. |
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In fact, most government sponsored attempts to tackle tough problems are wastefully inefficient at best and killers of initiative and invention at worst. |
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He never faced a room full of twenty-first century youngsters who, at best, would rather be at home playing Playstation games and, at worst, were determined to do him down. |
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For weeks the information coming out of Kuala Lumpur was, at best, inconsistent and contradictory and, at worst, tainted. |
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Critiques were drawn of the various fashionable conservative notions, which made them seem gimmicky at best, crackpot at worst. |
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While all of these arguments contain a kernel of truth, close analysis shows that they are disingenuous at best and downright misleading at worst. |
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If you're a nightly news devotee, then the 30-second hokum that often passes for nutrition science may confuse you at the very least or derail your long-term health at worst. |
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What in their history do they find inconsistent with totalitarianism, or at best statism, or at worst Marxism? |
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I personally was encouraged from an early age to regard your country as opportunistic at minimum, greedy at best, and the worst bully in the playground at worst. |
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I had buck teeth, frizzy crazy hair, and a style that was bohemian at best, thrift store at worst. |
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To feel that way towards toffs today makes you at best an anachronism, at worst a freak, as I was reminded recently when I appeared at a literary festival. |
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In the absence of such an understanding, spirituality will always be construed as extracurricular or a complement to education at best, and a delusory distraction at worst. |
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Military options against a nuclear state would be unappealing at best and counterproductive at worst. |
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These projections are at best pure fantasy and at worst a bold faced lie. |
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At their best they come off as brilliant, and at worst, overly simpering and voyeuristic. |
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At best, his administration appeared exceptionally lax, and at worst, it willfully obstructed justice. |
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At best it was enormously misleading, and at worst it was untruthful. |
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At best it is naive, but at worst it is misleading and at times erroneous. |
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Jeffrey MacDonald seems to be a best somewhat weird and unpleasant, and at worst, a sociopath. |
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This album, at worst, is going to take me over the 40 million quid mark. |
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One of the main reasons they have risen to such prominence is the fact that the police are at best indifferent to them and, at worst, actively sympathize. |
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The ex-felon is at best a second-class citizen and at worst a non-citizen. |
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Ethics without science is at best uninformed and at worst delusive, while science without ethics is at best suspect and at worst downright dangerous. |
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Still others see the presence of guns on campus as a distraction at best, and at worst, a danger. |
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Most of the writing was done by Lincoln enthusiast Jesse Weik, and the reception was mixed at best and downright hostile at worst. |
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Most people think of chiropractic as, at best, something good for back pains and, at worst, pure quackery. |
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When this line is drawn, as in the departmental structures of schools, it is at best tentative and suppositional, at worst false. |
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Their fire was indiscriminate at best, targeting civilians at worst. |
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Since beer often costs little more than half the English shop price, at worst, the savings defray the cost of a day out. |
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But it also contained numerous statements I would consider, at best, regurgitated campaign rhetoric, or, at worst, just plain wrong. |
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The neo-Luddite is considered by many as an aberration at best or a social virus at worst. |
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That's an oversimplification at best, and simply wrong at worst. |
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Congressional Republicans have charged that, at best, the request for the files was a gross invasion of privacy and, at worst, a plot to dig up dirt on the GOP officials. |
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At best, it will leave a sufferer feeling like they have a permanent flu or a hangover, and at worst can lead to hospitalisation and end organ failure. |
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Unfortunately, this seems at best hubristic and at worst dangerous. |
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