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
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
