weaponized
Word-form referencesweaponize
Adjective
Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
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Weaponized anthrax is a biological terror weapon, whereas anthrax found in the wild is unlikely to cause a plague.
Trace that logic out a bit, and you arrive at a kind of weaponized incompetence: Your husband isn’t good at certain tasks, so he shouldn’t have to do them.
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