greatest evil
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandevil
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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evil
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈiː.vəl/us/ˈiː.vəl/
something that is very bad ...
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(Definition ofgreatandevilfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thegreatestevilis to presume to sculpt the human clay (3: 99).
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Ourgreatestevilis within ourselves, our greatest enemy is among us.
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However, it may be that illness and suffering are not thegreatestevilto be fought.
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Thegreatestevilhas been struck out.
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I think that that is thegreatestevil.
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Unemployment is thegreatestevilof our time.
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Inflation was and, in my opinion, remains thegreatestevil.
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To them idleness would be thegreatestevil.
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I believe that cruelty is thegreatestevilof mankind.
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His position was more or less consistent, depending on whether intervention or isolation seemed thegreatestevilat any one time.
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I believe that it is thegreatestevilof our time.
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The modern arms race is thegreatestevilwhich the human race has ever known.
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I agree that theirgreatestevilis triviality, the tendency to trivialise everything.
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I believe that thegreatesteviltoday, in the administration of coalmining in particular.
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Thegreatestevildoes not come from the desire to get more and more profit.
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We believe that thegreatestevilof all is inflation, and that must be tackled.
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Drugs—thegreatestevilfacing our criminal justice system—are commonplace.
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Certainly, to the average pensioner, inflation must be thegreatestevil.
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That brings me to the third andgreatestevilin our economy.
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That, to my mind, is thegreatestevilin this proposal.
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It is ostensibly framed for the purpose of meeting thegreatestevilof the capitalist system.
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The worker'sgreatestevilis the uncertainty of the demand for his labour.
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Thegreatestevil, and the most divisive influence that this country faces, is inflation.
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The last is thegreatestevil.
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Each system identifies thegreatestevil.
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