cruel

I 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 II 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