Many of you make a career out of imagining horrible things; I have no illusion that mine is the pessimal condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference

The pessimal condition for me would not be that I don't fully recover my vestibular functioning; that would be bad, but we could adjust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference

The pessimal condition would be that I don't fully recover my vestibular function and have to wonder if I could have, if only I'd worked harder at the PT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference

I am willing to believe the current state of US health care is suboptimal, but the operative assumption of many people here is that it is pessimal, that it is the worst possible situation, and therefore any change, no matter how political and ill-conceiving is necessarily step in the right direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Slippery Slopes] Reference

I'd say 'nearly pessimal'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Sub-pessimal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lookout Landing] Reference