Crying
Crying adjective - Needing immediate attention.
Usage example: a crying need for more activities for young people in this town
Minor
Minor adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Both words in one sentence
- Jen curses her out then reveals that her boggart isn't a random child crying over some minor scrape; it's herself shortly after being thrown out on the streets and not long before she was raped.
Source: Fanfic / Princess of the Blacks - The passage after his injury in Italy, where he describes a bloodied and battered infantryman comforting him in the ambulance with his relatively minor injury, but flinching and crying at every noise, is particularly poignant.
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