May 17, 2018:

Her husband was a baldhead with a fetish for Asians. He took advantage of his position as ESL tutor to exploit his female students with utter cynicism. Or utter lack of self-awareness, perhaps as likely.

She was just plain dumb.

It required a lot of mulling to sort that out.

Obviously she had terrible manners, was self-absorbed, manipulative. What was puzzling was that she so obviously meant well.

He was dumb but also evil, in a dimwitted "I can't be evil I'm too cool" kinda way.

He didn't mean well at all.