Sentence examples for is least bad from inspiring English sources

All options are bad, he reportedly said; the challenge is to figure out which is least bad.

Most of the time, however, private monopoly is least bad, because it prevents the creation of public bodies which will stick around much longer than is necessary, and it will prevent statutory limitations on new entrants.

But Anatole Kaletsky of the Times, who is always worth reading, writes that all three main parties were feeble on the key point yesterday – Darling, Cameron and Clegg – but that Darling was least bad.

They have a right and a responsibility to ensure the outcome is the least bad it can be.

We are not trying to find out if the free market is the least bad of all options, we are only asking if it corrodes human character.

"They are all bad, but the last one is the least bad, for both Cyprus and the rest of Europe".

Indeed, the court has said that trumpeting the mere admission to its bar as significant "could be misleading to the general public" and is "at least bad taste".

Yet more Africans these days accept that being able genuinely to choose their leaders is the least bad way to freedom and prosperity.

But it seems doubtful such an argument – that the deal, while imperfect, is the least bad option on the table – would be likely to persuade Republican critics.

He is thought to have been picked ahead of his two older brothers solely because he is the least bad of a bad lot.

But it is the least bad alternative at the moment, and international politics is often about choosing among lousy alternatives.