bad lot
Example Sentences
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As it stands, the 6-7 Bucs are the best of a bad lot.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2022
"However, this option is the best of a bad lot."
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2022
His real name was Ralph Fariss, and he’d been a bad lot since he was a teenager sent to reform school.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2022
The other side of this discourse is also incorrect: the urge to pile on, to dismiss everything and everyone here as defective human matter, a bad lot to be given up on.
From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2020
“Another bad lot, I’ll be bound,” muttered Grandma Josephine.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
