Oh, please, then you should broaden your thought process. Sure, "very" is overused/misused. But there are all sorts of places where it is the perfect word, especially when playing like you are talking to a child:
"And when she was bad, she was very, very bad."
Let's all agree that using "malicious" or "malevolent" would "degrade the semantics and syntax" of the sentence.
The number of absolute statements you can make about the English language is very close to the null set.
