Worthlesser

1892, Henry Adams, letter, in Part 1 of Supplement to the Letters of Henry Adams: Letters Omitted from the Harvard University Press Edition of the Letters of Henry Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1989. I let myself vaguely hope that you are all right, and that perhaps some day, when I am still older and worthlesser than now, I may see you again — at a distance.

Now there's old Sapperson — never touched liquor as far as I know, but a worthlesser human never lived.

The two kids caught fish to eat and they helped Uncle Frank cook stuff. I tried to help out by washing up the pots but I got lost finding the stream and they had to come get me. "I'm worthlesser than a cockroach." That's what I told Uncle Frank.

Most of them guys was even more worthlesser than Daddy.