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(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

(of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"

See Crewel.

Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

Disposed to give pain to others; merciless; hard-hearted; fierce; painful; unrelenting.

Disposed to inflict pain, or pleased at suffering: void of pity, merciless, savage.

Disposed to inflict pain; void of pity; severe.

Disposed to inflict suffering; pitiless; unreasonably severe; harsh; distressing.

Disposed to give pain to others; unfeeling; hard-hearted; proceeding from cruelty; causing pain.

Inclined to inflict pain or sufferings on others; barbarous; inhuman; extremely unkind; hard-hearted; merciless.

Pleased with hurting others, inhuman, hardhearted, barbarous; of things, bloody, mischievous, destructive.