All cruelty synonyms
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C c noun cruelty
- brutality β Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- savagery β an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- torture β the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- inhumanity β the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.
- malice β desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- barbarity β If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
- persecution β the act of persecuting.
- barbarism β If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
- bestiality β Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- rancor β bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- despotism β Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
- sadism β Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others. Compare masochism.
- wickedness β the quality or state of being wicked.
- severity β harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
- spite β a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- animality β the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual
- fierceness β menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- venom β the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.
- depravity β Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- ferocity β a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
- vicious β addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- insensibility β incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
- malignity β the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
- coarseness β composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
- truculence β fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- spitefulness β full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- coldness β having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- callousness β made hard; hardened.
- insensitive β deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
- unfeeling β not feeling; devoid of feeling; insensible or insensate.
- murderous β of the nature of or involving murder: a murderous deed.
- mercilessness β without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- unkindness β lacking in kindness or mercy; severe.
- heartless β unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
- bloodthirsty β Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
- ruthless β without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
- savage β fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- masochism β Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- meanness β the state or quality of being mean.
- rancour β bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- brutish β If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.
- fiendish β diabolically cruel and wicked.
- nastier β physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- vindictiveness β disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- harshness β ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
adjective cruelty
- wildness β living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.