The phrase "almost as evil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the level of evilness of two subjects, indicating that one is nearly as evil as the other.
Example: "While he may not be the villain of the story, his actions are almost as evil as those of the antagonist."
Alternatives: "nearly as wicked" or "practically as malevolent".
Justice Scalia said that he had considered fleeing to Canada, "but they not only have gay marriage but also national health care, which is almost as evil".
Questions were asked in Parliament, and Mrs Whitehouse and her repressive cohorts found in the BBC Director General, Hugh Carleton Greene, a figure almost as evil as their usual bête noire, Satan.
"A mixture of mischievous Puck and tiresome leftwing moraliser," says Charles Spencer, winding himself up, "[Shawn] implies that America is almost as evil as the Third Reich and forcefully prods his audience into spasms of liberal guilt".
The novel's tone is perverse and so unsentimental it's almost as if García Márquez's evil twin turned up and wrote it.
Comes with the territory, and I've long accepted that – I'm sure a lot of PR folks think of those as necessary evil almost as much as we do.
The three-part series tells the story of the lovelorn (and lyrical) Dr. Horrible, who wants to be accepted into the Evil League of Evil almost as much as he wants to win the heart of his crush, Penny.
They are evils almost as grave as abortion itself.
Mr. Bernstein writes, "It is almost as if the language of evil has been dropped from contemporary moral and ethical discourse".
When Steven chats with Healey about the nature of evil, it's almost as if he is trying to pick up the detective, but the movie doesn't follow up on the pansexual vampire idea, since it has a prescribed number of marks to hit.
But his comments were so understated -- there were no warnings to Saddam Hussein, no talk of his government as "evil" -- that he almost appeared to be orchestrating a role reversal with his usually more-cautious secretary of state, Colin L. Powell.
Almost as primal as the age-old dichotomy between good and evil is the struggle between art and commerce.
