Awful and Toxic

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Awful adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

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Toxic and awful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Toxic" instead an adjective "Awful".

Nearby Word: awfully

Toxic adjective - Containing or contaminated with a substance capable of injuring or killing a living thing.

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Awful and toxic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Awful" instead an adjective "Toxic".

Nearby Words: toxicant, toxin

For some reason, every drink I took felt toxic... Of course, in hindsight, it might have just been the awful combination of drinks, but that's just me.Vivaldi and friends11JagerAnyone who has drunk Jager in copious amounts and who has read this know that it was a very, VERY bad idea.

Source: Drinking Game / My Immortal
Barn of the Blood Llama, an awful 1997 movie in which (quoting IMDB) "Inbred hillbillies trap various passersby at their World o' Wool llama farm where an animal coroner is conducting genetic experiments which turn the animals into sex-starved toxic beasts".

Source: Everything's Better with Llamas
Toxic Friend Influence: A lot of Ginger's problems seem to stem from Dodie giving really awful advice; perhaps the most obvious example being the episode 'Next Question', when Dodie encourages Ginger to ask out a teacher she's crushing on.

Source: Western Animation / As Told by Ginger

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