Bleak and Cruel

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Bleak

Bleak adjective - Causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer.
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Cruel and bleak are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Bleak".
Nearby Words: bleakness, bleakly

Cruel

Cruel adjective - Difficult to endure.
Usage example: the cruel climate of the Arctic
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Bleak and cruel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bleak" instead an adjective "Cruel".
Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

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  • First Time in the Sun You have a person or, more likely, a large group of people, who have been raised somewhere bleak and cruel, usually Beneath the Earth, a City in a Bottle, or in some overgrown urban or industrial setting in which no beauty remains among the cold architecture and pollution.
    Source: First Time in the Sun
  • Film / Metropolis Industrialized Evil: The workers lead a cruel, bleak existence amongst the machines.
    Source: Film / Metropolis
  • Literature / The Scavenger Trilogy The subject matter, however, is bleak and the treatment of it cruel.
    Source: Literature / The Scavenger Trilogy
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