Brutal and Very bad

Brutal

Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.

Very bad and brutal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Very bad" instead an adjective "Brutal".

Very bad

Definitions of Brutal not found.

Brutal and very bad are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective phrase "Very bad".

Both terms in one sentence

  • Video Game / We Happy Few 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.
  • 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.
  • Bait the Dog 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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