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lesser evil

alt. Given two bad choices the one that is less objectionable. n. Given two bad choices the one that is less objectionable.

Usage examples of "lesser evil".

He felt it a lesser evil to free a bondsman's son than to bond a freeman's.

The fact that I thought flaunting myself up on stage would be a lesser evil than watching someone else flaunt themselves at Nathaniel, said clearly that my priorities had become skewed.

He felt it a lesser evil to free a bondsmans son than to bond a freemans.

But it was what one was bred to which seemed the lesser evil —.

We only have the chance of choosing the lesser evil and of working for the establishment of a new kind of society in which common decency will again be possible.

But it was what one was bred to which seemed the lesser evil -- if one could deem it so.

But it was what one was bred to which seemed the lesser evil if one could deem it so.

I wasn't sure it was the lesser evil, but a girl's got to draw the line somewhere.

I hate to have the Monsters permanently preempting any part of the Band System, but it's a lesser evil than the extinction of the Band society.