cruel
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adjective
acrimonious, agonizing, atrocious, barbarous, blood-thirsty, brutal, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, crudelis, demoniacal, devilish, diabolical, distressing, evil-minded, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, hard, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, hellish, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-willed, implacable, indifferent to suffering, inhuman, inhumane, insensitive, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, merciless, oppressive, painful, pitiless, punishing, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, sadistic, satanic, savage, severe, spiteful, tortuous, treacherous, tyrannical, unbenevolent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unnatural, unpitying, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, vicious
associated concepts: cruel and abusive treatment, cruel and barbarous treatment, cruel and inhuman punishment, cruel and inhuman treatment, cruel and unusual punishment, cruel disposition, cruel treatment
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index
bad (offensive), brutal, caustic, cold-blooded, diabolic, harmful, harsh, inexcusable, malevolent, malicious, malignant, oppressive, outrageous, pernicious, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, scathing, severe, sinister, unrelenting, vicious
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006