Easy
Easy adjective - Posing no difficulty; requiring little effort.
Usage example: an easy job
Trying
Trying adjective - Difficult to endure.
Usage example: a harrowing account of the trying conditions experienced by the hostages prior to their release
Both words in one sentence
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An example of this trope where it's easy for these objects to kill you when they're not actually trying.
Source: Everything Trying to Kill You - It's easy to interpret this as her trying to deny Quinn from having a cute boyfriend, but it's also just as easy to interpret this as genuine concern for Quinn.
Source: Pet The Dog / Western Animation -
It all seems easy enough as only Wrath/Anger, Envy and Greed are causing trouble (with Sloth don't even trying to run and Gluttony as well as Lust being ridiculously easy to lure into a trap).
Source: Literal Split Personality
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