0 morally bad, cruel, or very unpleasant: --
2 the condition of being immoral, cruel, or bad, or an act of this type: --
In the absence of any viable alternative, most secular women chose the lesser of two evils: the state.
So, whilst the outcomes in cases such as the two presented here are not perfect, they are the lesser of two evils.
5 are prohibited, they are seen as a lesser evil than /tl/ onsets.
Most attacks grew out of charges of administrative cor ruption, which contemporaries saw as one of the greatest evils of their day.
The complexity of history thus undermines evidential arguments from evil that begin with our observations of evils that appear to be gratuitous.
However, if the person is not obliged at that time under that circumstance, the act is not evil.
It was not for nothing that his conservative opponents spoke of him as a ' very evil man '.!
There are many silly, corrupt, or evil practices that would "cease to exist" if the participants did not generally comply with certain putative norms.
