Mean and Scaring

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

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

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

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Mean and scaring are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Scaring".

Nearby Words: scare, scar, scared, scary

Shinji does not want to tell plainly he loves her because he is frightened of scaring her away, so he resorts to tell "You... mean a lot to me" and other euphemisms.

Source: Fanfic / Once More with Feeling
Little Monsters is based on this trope, though the monsters from the under-the-bed dimension are thrive more on mean-spirited pranks than scaring people.

Source: Things That Go "Bump" in the Night
In this respect, the martyrs of Christianity are actually scaring the Roman emperor before his heel face turn, because "Jesus is a republican" — and that does not mean he is a member of the GOP.

Source: Literature / Creation, Man and the Messiah

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