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cruel
adjective as in vicious, pitiless; causing pain
Strongest matches
atrocious, barbarous, bitter, brutal, callous, cold-blooded, evil, harsh, hateful, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, merciless, painful, relentless, ruthless, sadistic, spiteful, tyrannical, unkind, vicious, wicked
Weak matches
bestial, bloodthirsty, brutish, degenerate, demoniac, depraved, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, hard-hearted, hellish, implacable, inexorable, malevolent, monstrous, pernicious, poignant, rancorous, revengeful, sinful, unfeeling, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, virulent
Example Sentences
Still, they tried again and on the second time, something felt different as Daisy says: "When I found out I was pregnant again, I thought the world cannot be this cruel twice."
There is nothing naive about these women who came of age during Putin’s cruel regime, but they nonetheless believe they can change things.
Yet none found the back of the net, leaving the game to be decided on penalties, the cruelest, meanest, most unfair — and most exciting — way to determine a winner.
“So I bury my head into work. My escapism is the cruel reality of the city right now.”
“The road being built in this corrupt, cruel way was a natural outgrowth of everything set up in the first movie. We’re telling the audience right away, ‘We explore heavy themes in our story.’”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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