For better or for __ (5)

I believe the answer is:

worse

(Other definitions for worse that I've seen before include "more unpleasant" , "Of poorer quality" , "Less favourable" , "Opposite of better" , "More severe; less well" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday and the Universal.

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