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n. (context archaic euphemistic English) prostitution.
Usage examples of "social evil".
What social system, past or present, has a better record in respect to any social evil that anyone might choose to ascribe to capitalism?
They regarded nationalism as a major social evil, as a product of capitalism and as the cause of wars.
But at the end of twenty years the Army cannot point to one single cause of social distress that it has removed, or to one single act which it has promoted that has dealt a death-blow at one social evil.
The churches use their donated funds to fight no-fault divorce, calling it a social evil.
The social evil has not been suppressed in old England or in New England, in London or in Boston.
It was a People's Course, the lecture on the Pyramids, and Jo rather wondered at the choice of such a subject for such an audience, but took it for granted that some great social evil would be remedied or some great want supplied by unfolding the glories of the Pharaohs to an audience whose thoughts were busy with the price of coal and flour, and whose lives were spent in trying to solve harder riddles than that of the Sphinx.