How to describe a scenario where there is a mutually exclusive unintended negative affect after a positive intention
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A single word or phrase for something that necessarily causes both harm and benefit?
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Word for describing the situation of caring about nothing but one thing
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A word to describe meaningless exchanges in conversation
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How to use 'would' to express vagueness
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What is a word that means "the outcome resulting from a lack of action"?
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Dealing with Norm, Complex situation not desired
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Term or phrase describing action occuring when not watching
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a better way to express "an idea/thought suddenly came to me"
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What do you call an 'unselfish' action made with a selfish reason?
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When A and B are positively related variables, can they have opposite effect on their outcome variable C?
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What is the word/expression when you take pleasure in doing something that convention says you are not supposed to do?
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Word for Negatively Surprising
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"Didn't want to do X until Y happened" vs. "hadn't wanted to do X until Y happened"
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Is there a word for when an action has an effect opposite to the one intended?
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English idiom for 'bad consequences stemming from too much ambition'
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Affect vs effect use
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Is there an expression to indicate the strategy of wearing someone down with numerous small irritations?