lesser evilist

English

Noun

lesser evilist (plural lesser evilists)

1. A proponent of lesser evilism.
   • 1949, Anvil and Student Partisan - Volumes 1-5, page 6:

     When does a "lesser evilist" begin to fight for the greatest good, i.e., socialism?

   • 1974, Philip Nobile, Intellectual Skywriting, page 138:

     Harrington, forty-five, is a lesser evilist who could have voted in good conscience for regular Democrat Henry "Scoop" Jackson over both Nixon and a splinter peace candidate if the occasion had arisen.

   • 1997, Susan Weissman, The Ideas of Victor Serge: A Life as a Work of Art, page 114:

     Yet this failure does not adequately account for Serge's general migration from a Trotskyist to a "Third Camp" socialist to a non-revolutionary "lesser evilist."