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at best
Under the most favorable circumstances, as in At best we'll be just one week behind schedule, or Cleaning out the attic is a tedious job at best. This idiom, formerly also put as at the best, today is most often used in situations that are actually far from ideal, as in the examples above. [First half of 1300s] For an antonym, see at worst.
Example Sentences
These are at best irrelevant — more likely, a moral hazard.
However Stokes chose to spin it, his "put two and two together" comments were ambiguous at best and clumsy at worst.
To many of her colleagues we've spoken to, that is being increasingly revealed as naive at best.
For critics, the prospect of a Labour government taking away social security payments from some sick and disabled people is at best unpalatable and at worst unconscionable.
“Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board,” offered one person familiar with the dynamic.
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