in the worst way

1. Desperately, very much, as in He wanted a new trumpet in the worst way. This usage replaced worst kind. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s]

Example Sentences

The skepticism over hedging will inevitably be challenged in the worst way, though when that occurs is impossible to know.

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A team that had become the feel-good story of the college football season suffered a throwback performance in the worst way at Memorial Stadium during a 56-6 loss to No. 2 Indiana.

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Of course, McKinnon does it in the worst way possible, forcing Cam to fish the leftovers he’s scraped from his tray out of the garbage and making sure the recruit stuffs them in his mouth.

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"They never have been, they don’t answer to anyone. It’s hypocrisy in the worst way. They’re living a lie."

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He wrote that he saw Appalachians “reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible” and that they were products of “a culture that encourages social decay instead of counteracting it”.

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