evils

Example Sentences

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It encapsulates the well-founded belief that starting a war is likely to create unforeseen evils greater than the evil of the status quo.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Denver Quarterly evidently bars material that lays bare social evils, since “we do not tolerate submissions that contain hate speech, bigotry, discrimination, or racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or ableist language or violence of any kind.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

"It comes down to choosing the lesser of two evils."

From Barron's • Dec. 20, 2025

Bobi Wine defended Ampe, saying he was using social media to "expose corruption, abuse of power, oppression of lower ranking officers and other evils within the Uganda Prisons Service".

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

“As I was about to explain, the only good thing in the box was Hope, and that is why, even though there are many evils in the world, there is still a little hope.”

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech