Bad and Ordinary

Bad

Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Ordinary and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ordinary" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Ordinary

Ordinary adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.

Bad and ordinary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Ordinary".

Both words in one sentence

  • Promotional Powerless Piece of Garbage To everyone else they act exactly like ordinary Pyros and Scouts, which is not considered a bad thing in this fandom.
  • They Look Just Like Everyone Else The Big Bad of Psycho-Pass, Shogo Makishima, certainly looks like an ordinary individual, but what makes him truly qualify for this trope is that the Sibyl System views him as an ordinary individual.
  • A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read This is made worse because the bad guys range from a chaotic evil cannibal to a lawful evil warlord wannabe, and just their ordinary thoughts would be bad enough.
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