The phrase "as the worst example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to highlight something that serves as a particularly poor or negative illustration of a point being made.
Example: "In the debate about climate change, the oil spill was cited as the worst example of environmental negligence."
Alternatives: "as the prime example of failure" or "as the most egregious case".
Alderson did not use the term payroll disparity, but he clearly viewed the Rodriguez signing as the worst example yet of what wealthier teams are doing to baseball.
The Wisconsin case was described by voters who brought the case as the worst example of gerrymandering in modern history, turning what would otherwise be majority votes for Democrats in the state assembly into big Republican victories.
A bizarre "love interest" dynamic between the elf Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) and dwarf Kili (Aidan Turner) has been seized upon by Tolkien fans as the worst example of the film-maker's tinkering.
At the end of the trial, the judge, Mr Justice Mackay, said that, in his 30 years in the legal profession, he regarded Balfour Beatty's failure as the "worst example of sustained industrial negligence in a high-risk industry he had ever seen".
John presents the Roman Emperor Julian as the worst example of a tyrant.
He calls the phenomenon "introductus interruptus" and cited the Chevy Volt as the worst example of it in recent years.
But prosecutor Nicholas Haggan QC told the court of how a listed building specialist Michael Davies described the alterations as being the "worst example" he had seen during his 25-year career.
He characterized Roe and Miranda v. Arizona, the landmark Supreme Court decision from 1966 about criminal suspects and police questioning, as "the worst examples of judicial activism".
This incident in Madison County, N.C., known to history as the Shelton Laurel massacre, was hardly the worst example of violence visited on civilian populations during the Civil War.
