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give someone the evil eye to look at someone in an angry or unpleasant way. I arrived late for the meeting and Steve Thomson gave me the evil eye. the lesser of two evils the less unpleasant of two choices, neither of which are good. I suppose I regard the Democratic candidate as the lesser of two evils. See also: two a necessary evil something that you do not like but which you know must exist or happen. He considers taxes a necessary evil. the lesser of two evils the less unpleasant of two choices, neither of which are good. Sometimes I don't like either of the candidates, so I just try to choose the lesser of the two evils. Usage notes: sometimes used in the form a lesser evil: I don't like her, I just think of her as the lesser evil. See also: two |
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There are, however, times when Fryer's hand gets a little heavy with the white characters, particularly Conrad's evil brother Rafe, whose evilness is telling enough without any enhancement. ``We pray for Kim Jong Il to repent for his evilness and for the regime to fall, and also pray for the unification of North and South (Korea,)'' the Rev. McKinlay identifies Jezebel as the "prime example of that very stock figure of 'foreign' evilness, whose seductive and sinister powers are inevitably deathly" (31). |
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