Decayed and Mean

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Decayed adjective - Having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit.

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Mean and decayed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Decayed".

Nearby Words: decay, decaying

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

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Decayed and mean are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decayed" instead an adjective "Mean".

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

By the end of Star Trek: Voyager, the Borg's bad-assness had decayed so badly that Janeway routinely blew up whole Borg cubes with just a mean stare.

Source: Badass Decay
Given that the first half sounds like a Portmaneau of "numb" and "dim," and what "rod" can mean, this name's level of badass may have decayed a bit by now.

Source: Names To Run Away From / Biblical Names
They even go so far as try to apply this to the entire Fudd lineage, even though the shorts eventually started focusing on other villains because Elmer had decayed so much it just seemed mean to have Bugs keep outsmarting him.

Source: Western Animation / Loonatics Unleashed

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