Had she just made a worse fool of herself than she thought?

Might have made a worse fool of myself however.

Tell us, or it will be the worse for you, you old fool!

"Only that you're one of the worst fools I've had the bad fortune to meet."

"Now that the worst of the crisis is over, people are acting like worse fools than ever."

But we make worse fools of ourselves to have them about us.

I just want to relax and think, to work things out in my own mind before I make a worse fool of myself.

Too bad the old fool couldn't see things your way.

"They'd be worse fools," he added, "to let me hear that they didn't."