in the worst way

Adverb

Meaning

(chiefly US and Canada, idiomatic) Urgently; desperately; to an extreme degree.
I need a drink of water in the worst way.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in,‎ the,‎ worst,‎ way.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

something awful

Examples

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. Friedrich Nietzsche

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for? Muddy Waters

At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. Charles Bukowski

Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win. Theodore J. Forstmann

All this may sound touchy-feely in the worst way, but Jonze is trying to get at how we seek romantic connection in this brave (or not so brave) new world. Source: Internet

Crushing on grapefruit Perrier in the worst way. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

in the worst possible case in the worst possible scenario in the worst scenario in the wrong in the wrong direction in the wrong hands