0 something you do not want to experience because it is so unpleasant: --
1 something you do not want to experience because it is so unpleasant or embarrassing: --
It is a fate worse than death.
There is a fate worse than death, you know...
This was a fate worse than death for masculine gendered males.
There are fates worse than death which some of us might suffer in our bodies, but that incorporeal entity, the company, can hardly suffer a fate worse than death.
That is a fate worse than death.
That, in the past, would not have been regarded by mankind as a fate worse than death.
They thought at first it was a fate worse than death.
Insensibility becomes a fate worse than death itself and even becomes a disqualification for life.