evils

Example Sentences

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A wary Tinseltown reluctantly coalesced around the Netflix bid, seeing it as the lesser of two evils, but Paramount's willingness to stump up ever greater sums eventually saw the streamer withdraw.

From Barron's • May 13, 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

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

You want to choose the lesser of all evils.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

In fact, he had begun to write down lists of all the world’s evils, as if he were building up an army of words to fight some heavenly battle.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley