Usually means: Choosing the least harmful option.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lesser-evil: Wordnik
  2. lesser evil: Wiktionary
  3. Lesser evil, The Lesser Evil (Brenner book), The Lesser Evil (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. the lesser evil: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. the lesser evil: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the lesser evil: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the lesser evil: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lesser evil: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (lesser evil)

noun:  Synonym of lesser of two evils

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