Well, at the end of the day...

>weapons of mass destruction<

Yes, ubiquitous, now, as the above nauseating phrase. But how big is the required mass to earn the phrase as label...a bit subjective, don't you think? I mean, machine guns didn't do too badly at the First Battle of the Somme in WWI, for instance. Grapeshot was fairly effective for destroying masses of men during the US Civil War, too.

Neuticles is new to me!

So, I guess a begrudging improvement would be embittered embetterment?