Bad
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Our hero, Danny, attempts to single-handedly bring down the bad guys, but passes out before he can... in slow-motion... to the mournful strains of Gary Jules' "Mad World." It's an aggressively silly show anyway, but this was just spectacular.
Source: Narm / Live-Action TV -
Song Style Shift: "Daffodil Lament" turns from a mournful dirge about a woman trapped in a bad relationship to a joyful, optimistic tune with a ringing guitar line after she leaves him.
Source: Music / The Cranberries -
The look on Frawley's face when Coughlin decides to make the cops kill him looks almost mournful, showing that while he would have stopped at nothing to arrest a bad guy, he wanted to take Coughlin alive.
Source: Film / The Town
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Mournful and Bad. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/mournful
Bad & Mournful. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/mournful>.
Mournful or Bad. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/mournful.
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