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
Otherwise, his play was a study in how to make the best of a bad lot.
From Golf Digest • 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
