least-worst

Scott Lyons, Norfolk Branch secretary of the National Education Union, said while not ideal, the plan may be the least-worst option.

"The difficulty of this election is that none of the choices is clear-cut on the issues, so the challenge for us voters is to choose the least-worst option," a businessman in central Jakarta told the BBC.

"We'd never want to do that, but what we're looking at is the least-worst option for them."

In 1975, Harper’s Magazine ranked Seattle the “least-worst city” in the country.

“This is not the thing they care most about in terms of China. It is not their top priority, but they are caught trying to find the least-worst solution between youth backlash on the one side and China backlash on the other.”