I wasn't sure it was the lesser evil, but a girl's got to draw the line somewhere.
Man's duty in this life, he thought, is to choose the lesser evil.
"Nice to be the lesser evil for a change," I said.
Confronted with lesser evils, we've come together in the face of them time and again.
But it may be a lesser evil for marine life at these depths.
Though some wars in history have been the lesser evil, haven't they?
In bad days you have to settle for the lesser evil.
Sometimes you have to go with the lesser of two - or more - evils.
In these circumstances, war or the use of armed force may be a lesser evil.
Despite the public's view, murder was one of the lesser evils.
Idiome