Sentence examples for the less evil from inspiring English sources

Carol Meschkow, whose group Concerned Citizens of the Plainview-Old Bethpage Community had been a vocal critic, said that "of two evils," the new plan was "definitely the less evil".

He insisted his plan to tell City Link's 2,700 workforce on 26 December would have been the "less evil thing to do" as it would not ruin workers' Christmases and prevent a "catastrophic effect" on the delivery of thousands of parcels.

(The less popular the president, the less evil he can do).

The prank seemed to be the less-evil version of a similarly baffling Facebook stunt committed unto HuffPost's Bianca Bosker recently, wherein some mysterious stranger recreated her entire Facebook profile and added her as a friend.

The Just War tradition has always emphasised that less evil must be unleashed by the military action than would have to be endured if no such action took place.

So we were happy to hear that recently, for one shining weekend, in one New Jersey town, the evil cult of soccer was elbowed aside by the slightly less evil cult of American Girl dolls.

This danger explains why unconditional openness of the borders is not the best (as opposed to what we were calling the worst above); it is only the less bad or less evil, the less violence.

Often, the monsters seem less evil than simply bestial, like creatures in the wild following their instincts.

(Attempts to convince the cat to be less evil have been largely abandoned).

In her criminal law class, Hurd teaches the cases of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, and says that every time she confronts those monstrous crimes a part of her wonders, "Why don't we use the power of the state to make people less evil?" But, as she points out, those were both crimes eligible for the death penalty.

Many mainstream unionists, including David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, have long regarded loyalist paramilitaries as less evil than the IRA, arguing that loyalists are merely reacting to IRA violence.