Usually means: Necessary for greater good, undesirable.
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  1. necessary evil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. necessary evil: Wiktionary
  3. Necessary Evil (Deborah Harry album), Necessary Evil (Salem album), Necessary Evil (aircraft), Necessary Evil (comics), Necessary evil (disambiguation), Necessary evil, The Necessary Evil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Necessary Evil: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (necessary evil)

noun:  (idiomatic) An unfavorable thing that must be done or accepted, especially because the available alternative courses of action or inaction would be worse.

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