Abrasive
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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He is abrasive and cruel, but unlike Gaston, he can be moved to compassion and feels guilt for his misdeeds and tries to make up for them.
Source: Disney / Beauty and the Beast - They are deliberately abrasive and cruel.
Source: Sour Outside, Sad Inside - The boys have decent voices at best, their namesake song is about how cruel and abrasive their girlfriends are ("steklovata" translates to "glass wool"), and the videos look like something the Critic over-did with a green screen.
Source: So Bad Its Good / Music
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