Synonym: at the best. Similar words: best, had best, best of all, for the best, beside, besides, bespoke, be subject to. Meaning: adv. under the best of conditions.
(181) This investiture of the grotesqueimpossible with reality, he looked upon as a trick - a trick at best.
(182) So put in these other terms negative 3 states that there is no fundamental real distinction only at best a conceptual distinction between X's categorical properties and X's dispositional properties.
(183) Americans need to prepare for a recession or, at best, a prolonged period of below - trend growth.
(184) A man who hogs the wheel -- even in your car -- 33 is sweetly old-fashioned at best and, at worst, could be a control freak.
(185) Worst of all, he was hungry and weary, and at best a whole day must intervene, for he had not heart to try again to-night.