Awful and Worse

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Awful adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

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Worse and awful are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Worse" with "Awful", this adjectives are similar.

Nearby Word: awfully

Worse adjective - (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability.

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Awful and worse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Awful" instead an adjective "Worse".

Nearby Words: worst, worsen, worsening, worsened

Laser-Guided Karma: after awful restart officer Pauline is sacked, she has to sit through restart sessions of her own, with an even worse one.Mickey: Pauline... she's worse than you!

Source: Series / The League of Gentlemen
But accepting it is all he can do and at least there will always be someone worse off than him.Victor: Lisa, that's awful.

Source: Web Video / Doppelgänger
The only reason it's lasted this long is the sheer size of it, and the fact that as awful as it is, the other factions are worse.

Source: Dystopia Is Hard

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