Sentence examples for least evil from inspiring English sources

'least evil' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the "lesser of two evils," or the smaller of two negative outcomes. For example, "Given the two choices, I chose the least evil."

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This is how they score – least evil first.

You choose your victor-aspirant based on who does the least evil.

So he bid two clubs, which in theory indicated three cards but was the least evil.

Brian Sewell Art critic 2005: Conservative 2010: Conservative I voted for the least evil of the available options.

I'm not saying I agree with everything, but you have to pick the least evil, the one who will do the least harm".

He decided that a two-club rebid was the least evil and now heard his partner jump to three hearts, showing three-card support and invitational values.

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Make sure that if your villain does die they do at least 3 evil things to deserve that fate or 1 evil thing that is so downtrodden that it has to be so.

Then for a while she cried quietly because of disturbing things she'd seen and heard at the AIDS hospice that afternoon, and because of various attitudes — typical New Orleans attitudes, she thought — voiced by some of the marathon organizers, which seemed callous and constituted right things done for wrong reasons, all of which made the world seem — to her, at least — an evil place.

The text was adopted under the American administration's pressure and threat that it would leave U.N. if it did not agree to what America wanted, which is, to say the least, extremely evil and shameful to every honest member of the United Nations who recalls the provisions of its Charter and sees that some people feel ashamed on behalf of those who are shameless.

But just because you have grown to accept the status quo does not mean that it is not at least as evil.

Perhaps there is some good or goods that are possible only in a world that contains or at least permits evil, and without which creation would be vastly inferior to what it is.

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