Severe
Very bad
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Potsie has a very bad relationship with his dad and if it weren't played for laughs, you'd think he was the victim of some severe emotional abuse.
Source: Series / Happy Days -
Jerk Justifications: Emma was originally presented as a textbook sociopath, somebody extremely inclined towards being very bad, who has no illusions about the "severe warts on her soul", on-off trying to learn how to be good, and stumbling along the way a lot.
Source: Comic Book / Emma Frost -
A particularly impressive example (played for laughs) appears when a knifeman for a local drug cartel blithely insists to Castle and Beckett that his severe injuries — otherwise consistent with a very bad beating — were sustained during a fall.
Source: Cut Himself Shaving
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