If anything, interest-group politics will tend to make the government somewhat worse at picking good targets.

The figures were somewhat worse than expected and reflected an increasingly grim labor market.

This was an error of over 3.6%, somewhat worse than existing systems.

It might have been, to put it mildly, somewhat worse.

Analysts said the results were somewhat worse than expected.

I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.

Job security is somewhat worse than that for the manager of the Yankees.

"There is some concern among economists that the country's economic condition may be somewhat worse than previously reported," the official said.

"We had been looking at break-even from operations," he said, "so the fourth quarter was somewhat worse than expected."

The brighter children or youngsters tends to do somewhat worse on such exams.