Awful and Cruel

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Awful

Awful adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.
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Cruel and awful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Awful".
Nearby Word: awfully

Cruel

Cruel adjective - Hard to accept or bear especially emotionally.
Usage example: the cruel situation of being orphaned at an early age
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Awful and cruel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Awful" instead an adjective "Cruel".
Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

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  • His power is "twisting", which twists the victim's body in awful and painful ways, and he exercises it on cruel whim.
    Source: Ax Crazy / Literature
  • Video Game / Persona 4 Naoto's is the most cruel, as she says that she's a failure of a detective because there's a mystery in front of her that she doesn't want to solve because she already knows the truth is too awful.
    Source: Video Game / Persona 4
  • Film / Deadman World Half Empty: Westernized society is shown to be corrupt and cruel, epitomized by the awful industrial town of "Machine." Unusually, Native society isn't idealized in comparison.
    Source: Film / Deadman
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