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English adjective: cruel

1. cruel (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering


SamplesA barbarous crime.
Brutal beatings.
Cruel tortures.
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks.
A savage slap.
Vicious kicks.


Synonymsbarbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious


Similarinhumane


Antonymshumane









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