least-worst

adjective

informal, bad but better than any available alternative

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And he told the inquiry: "It's the least-worst decision that could have been taken at the time."

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Scott Lyons, Norfolk Branch secretary of the National Education Union, said while not ideal, the plan may be the least-worst option.

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"The difficulty of this election is that none of the choices is clear-cut on the issues, so the challenge for us voters is to choose the least-worst option," a businessman in central Jakarta told the BBC.

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"We'd never want to do that, but what we're looking at is the least-worst option for them."

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In 1975, Harper’s Magazine ranked Seattle the “least-worst city” in the country.