Dangerous
Dangerous adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Usage example: the soldiers were specially selected to go on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines
Nearby Words: danger, dangerously
Harmless
Harmless adjective - Not causing or being capable of causing injury or hurt.
Usage example: a perfectly harmless little spider
Both words in one sentence
- He encourages his collegue "The ninth man" to enter one of the traps after conveying that it is fake - which it wasn't - to see, if he is in the dangerous or harmless version of the Nonary Game.
Source: Affably Evil / Video Games - Most of them actually aren't that dangerous, but given how incredibly adorable and harmless they look, it doesn't take a lot for them to be much more dangerous than they look.
Source: Killer Rabbit / Video Games -
For further fun, its noted that the aura is pretty much useless against some of the more dangerous people while making normally harmless people dangerous.
Source: Gorgeous Gorgon
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