if you can call it something
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used for emphasizing that you think something is not as good as it should be, or is not what it claims to be
That was the end of the discussion, if you could call it that.
She would be in pain for the rest of her life, if you could call it a life.
Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing how bad something is
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