Sentence examples for the lesser evil from inspiring English sources

The lesser evil, as it were.

That is the "lesser evil".

Faced with Hobson's choice, we opted for the lesser evil.

They are much more likely to vote for the lesser evil.

So until progress brings a middle ground, it becomes simply, which is the lesser evil?

Instead, we have become only the lesser evil — which is still evil.

The crisis of the past year has convinced him it is the lesser evil.

Already Lindbergh was mixing with people who thought Hitler emphatically the lesser evil than Soviet Russia.

The lesser-evil position, Ignatieff tells us, lies in never losing sight of the "morally problematic character of necessary measures".

In contrast with James Mill, Bentham's argument is of the lesser-evil type.

"I never got on the 'lesser evil' thing," he said.