Crueler

Synonyms for "crueler" (158 found)

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mean abusive acute afflictive agonizing animal anthropophagous atrocious barbarian barbaric barbarous beastly bestial biting bitter bloodthirsty bloody bloody minded bloody-minded bowelless

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brutal brutalized brute brutish callous cannibalistic cold-blooded cold-hearted cramping

Adjective(2 words)

barbarous brutal

Adjective(1 words)

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cruel-hearted cruise cutthroat demoniac demoniacal devilish diabolic diabolical distressing dog-eat-dog draconian excruciating fare fell feral ferocious fiendish fiendlike fierce flagrant

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flinty ghoulish gnawing go gory grave grim griping hard harrowing harsh heartless heinous hellish hie homicidal hurtful hurting implacable inclement inexorable infernal inhuman

Adjective(3 words)

dispiteous heavy-handed impiteous

Adjective(1 words)

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Is that how heartless you can be? Well, that doesn't phase me much, I don't find your level of cruelty that much impressive, show me just how much crueler you can be still!

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