Be mean
Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Both terms in one sentence
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Over the course of three episodes, Clem is given repeated chances to choose whether to be friendly and help Sarah or to be mean and abuse her.
Source: Video Game / The Walking Dead -
They may be mean-spirited, laugh at each other, drive each other nuts, hit each other and the list goes on, but whenever one of them is in deep trouble, they will do anything in their might to help that Rabbid (even if they can be total jerks while doing it).
- He's a sly, smug snake of a schemer, happily willing to throw anybody under the bus if it will help him further himself and be mean for the fun of it, yet, good lord.
Source: Jerkass Woobie / Live-Action TV
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