Brutal
Very bad
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Dirty Business: Applies to both the Very Bad Thing that Wellington Wells did to fight off the Nazis, and to the brutal measures undertaken by the Wellies to maintain order afterwards.
Source: Video Game / We Happy Few -
Utopia Justifies the Means: The brutal enforcement of Wellington Wells' drug policy is meant to prevent widespread depression from the Very Bad Thing they did.
Source: Video Game / We Happy Few -
His actions in Small World - strangling his mother to death and torturing her child, all with no remorse whatsoever and with no happy ending to mitigate them - are downright brutal, are played dead seriously, and are a reminder to the reader that Jonathan Crane is still a very bad man.
Source: Bait the Dog
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