cruel (adj.)
- acute
- afflictive
- agonizing
- animal
- anthropophagous
- atrocious
- barbaric
- barbarous
- beastly
- bestial
- biting
- bloodthirsty
- bloody
- bloody-minded
- bowelless
- brutal
- brute
- brutish
- callous
- cannibalistic
- cold-blooded
- cutthroat
- demoniac
- demoniacal
- devilish
- diabolic
- diabolical
- distressing
- excruciating
- fell
- feral
- ferocious
- fiendish
- fierce
- flinty
- go
- gory
- grave
- grim
- hard
- harrowing
- harsh
- heartless
- heinous
- hellish
- hie
- homicidal
- hurtful
- implacable
- inclement
- inexorable
- infernal
- inhuman
- inhumane
- merciless
- monstrous
- murderous
- outrageous
- painful
- paroxysmal
- pass
- piercing
- pitiless
- poignant
- pungent
- racking
- red-handed
- relentless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- sadistic
- sanguinary
- sanguineous
- satanic
- savage
- self-destructive
- severe
- sharp
- shooting
- slaughterous
- spasmodic
- stabbing
- stinging
- subhuman
- suicidal
- torturous
- truculent
- unchristian
- uncivilized
- uncompassionate
- unfeeling
- unforgiving
- unhuman
- unkind
- unmerciful
- unpitying
- unremorseful
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- unsympathizing
- unyielding
- vicious
- wolfish
Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Our days begin with trouble here,
Our life is but a span,
And cruel death is always near,
So frail a thing is man.
He knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
