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AT BEST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under the best of conditions

Example:

at best we'll lose only the money

Synonyms:

at best; at the best

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

at worst (under the worst of conditions)

Credits

 Context examples: 

But merchants and traders are cowardly rulers at best; they grunt and grub all their days in the trough of money-getting, and I have swung back to aristocracy, if you please.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the meantime, the abysmal brute in Beauty Smith had been rising into his brain and mastering the small bit of sanity that he possessed at best.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was a mad god at best, but White Fang knew nothing of madness; he knew only that he must submit to the will of this new master, obey his every whim and fancy.

(White Fang, by Jack London)