lesser evil in English

something that is the best of a group of bad options

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1. This sort of job is a lesser evil than unemployment.

2. The faux campaigns usually satirize voters who claim to vote for the "lesser evil".

3. Celibacy is, at best, the lesser evil; by no means is it regarded as a panacea.

4. Geralt killed an Amphisbaena for King Idi of Kovir, as referred to in the short story "The Lesser Evil"

5. Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Baltasar Gracian