Examples of 'is at best' in a sentence

Meaning of "is at best"

is at best: Suggests that the current situation or outcome is only marginally acceptable or satisfactory, and may not even meet that standard. It implies a less than ideal or subpar condition

How to use "is at best" in a sentence

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There is hope but it is at best a slim hope.
He is at best but the successful leader of a party.
Perhaps their tragedy is at best a mere statistic.
It is at best unclear if any or all dinosaurs were reptiles.
We live in a culture that is at best morally indifferent.
Is at best a recipe for ineffectiveness and stagnation.
Whatever you say is at best an educated guess.
It is at best a modern version of bread and circuses.
Whose allegiance to the truth is at best questionable.
I think it is at best limited and has a risk.
The accuracy of the receivers is at best metric.
Which is at best a veiled and disputable reference.
And the humanitarian issue is at best secondary.
Regulation is at best a partial remedy for such problems.
Stability across the region is at best fragile.

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This is at best the extent of my magic.
Passing meaningful legislation is at best an imperfect process.
This area is at best accessible using secondary roads.
The characterisation in your report is at best a serious misunderstanding.
That is at best a distortion of the facts.
In my mind this project is at best twenty years behind.
This is at best a gloss of your own.
In such cases conversion is at best approximate.
Parliament is at best only giving perfunctory attention to spending.
To equate judgment and wisdom with occupation is at best.
Anything else is at best a half measure.
Is usually posited as the year of birth but it is at best an estimate.
Such medication is at best ineffective and at worst deadly.
Our perception of reality is at best partial.
I think that is at best an incomplete judgment.
The theory behind cloud computing is at best subjective.
I think this is at best an untested guess.
Is at best serious misunderstanding.
Their condition is at best a tolerable one.
Is at best an objective disorder.
I find perfection is at best an illusion and at worst a lie.
The composition is at best.
Everything else is at best a sort of representation.
Possibilities for preventive action in favour of endangered persons is at best rudimentary.
Risk assessment is at best an imprecise science.
It is at best a stage of transition which stresses a passive openness to the unknown.
This privileged section is at best a defender of reformist politics.
It is at best a community without a functioning economic base or credible political structure.
Evaluation of such claims is at best difficult.
But this is at best a simplistic analysis.
As you can see it is at best poor.
Volume is at best comparable with that on the small exchanges.
The poet either dislikes music or is at best insensible to it.
Life is at best very short.
This is undesirable in that it is at best a nuisance.

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