waur

"She's waur," he whispered, like one who had lost his voice.

The proverb "Ill to hae but waur to want" was true of the Carlyles as of many another couple.

For I wasna giein-in to my mother; I was but thinkin hoo to say oot what was in me, ohn vext her waur nor couldna be helpit.

I alloo the sin itsel mayna be jist damnable, but to what bouk mayna it come wi ither and waur sins upo the back o' 't?

I had never muckle broo o' my gudeman's gossips, and now I like them waur than ever.