Fatal
Fatal adjective - Bringing about ruin or misfortune.
Trivial
Trivial adjective - Lacking importance.
Usage example: why spend so much time on trivial decisions, like whether the soda should be regular or diet?
Both words in one sentence
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The Final Destination films might as well have been called No OSHA Compliance: The Movies, considering how many gruesomely-fatal accidents result from a single trivial mechanical glitch.
Source: No OSHA Compliance - At the extreme, they may consider all non-fatal damage trivial... the down side is it also creates a gigantic Weak Point for enemies to easily kill the character.
Source: Heart Drive - The bite of a zombie is infectious, and is always a fatal injury, even if it seems a trivial scratch.
Source: Analysis / Zombie Apocalypse
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