mal necesario in Español

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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Locuciones",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Locuciones sustantivo masculino",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Rimas:a.ɾjo",
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    },
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      "name": "Español",
      "parents": [],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Español",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "Locución sustantivo masculino",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              48,
              61
            ]
          ],
          "text": "En la pandemia de COVID-19 la cuarentena fue un mal necesario para evitar que se diseminara la enfermedad y ocurriera una mortandad descomunal"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Situación desagradable o incómoda que no se puede evitar para buscar un beneficio o para evitar males mayores."
      ],
      "id": "es-mal_necesario-es-phrase-jVoI2fzc",
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Persona cuya presencia no es grata pero que sirve de ayuda para un propósito determinado."
      ],
      "id": "es-mal_necesario-es-phrase-7jKNrHrz",
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌmal ne.seˈsa.ɾjo]",
      "raw_tags": [
        "seseante"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌmal ne.θeˈsa.ɾjo]",
      "raw_tags": [
        "no seseante"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "a.ɾjo"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "masculine"
  ],
  "word": "mal necesario"
}

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{
  "categories": [
    "ES:Locuciones",
    "ES:Locuciones sustantivo masculino",
    "ES:Rimas:a.ɾjo",
    "Español"
  ],
  "lang": "Español",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "Locución sustantivo masculino",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              48,
              61
            ]
          ],
          "text": "En la pandemia de COVID-19 la cuarentena fue un mal necesario para evitar que se diseminara la enfermedad y ocurriera una mortandad descomunal"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Situación desagradable o incómoda que no se puede evitar para buscar un beneficio o para evitar males mayores."
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Persona cuya presencia no es grata pero que sirve de ayuda para un propósito determinado."
      ],
      "sense_index": "2"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌmal ne.seˈsa.ɾjo]",
      "raw_tags": [
        "seseante"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌmal ne.θeˈsa.ɾjo]",
      "raw_tags": [
        "no seseante"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "a.ɾjo"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "masculine"
  ],
  "word": "mal necesario"
}

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"mal necesario" meaning in Español

Phrase