bad lot
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"There are good and bad people everywhere and the bad lot try to take advantage of that."
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
As it stands, the 6-7 Bucs are the best of a bad lot.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 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
I do think that there’s a temptation and a tendency for all of us to just write it off as a bad lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2019
You have to agree in advance that man is fundamentally a bad lot, out for himself alone, displaying such graces as affection and compassion only as learned habits.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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