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
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
Later he recalled, “I told her I thought he was a bad lot and that she had better have little to do with him and get away from him as soon as possible.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
