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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

“Another bad lot, I’ll be bound,” muttered Grandma Josephine.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl


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