"Why no," replies Father, "therein she worsened her Story, by saying too much, as Dorothea did, when she pretended to have heard of the Knight of La Mancha's Fame, when she landed at Ossuna; which even a Madman as he was, knew to be noe Sea-port.
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning
And of my company wilt thou be nought worsened."
"Old French Romances"
William Morris
Even bad news would be worsened if he had to hear it from those lips.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin