Brutal and Desperate

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Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.

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Desperate and brutal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Desperate" instead an adjective "Brutal".

Nearby Words: brutish, brute, brutalize, brutality, brutally

Desperate adjective - Feeling or showing no hope.

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Brutal and desperate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Desperate".

Nearby Words: desperately, desperation

Fisher Kingdom: As the war drags on, the residents of occupied France become more desperate and brutal, on all sides.

Source: Literature / The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
The elders are not necessarily victims of brutal front-end justice - many of them cut off their own arms and legs to feed the starving people during the early desperate days of the train.

Source: Film / Snowpiercer
While the Necromancers of the Shintula clan, who channel the black Power of Death, can be quite violent and brutal and are not known for kindness, they are mostly desperate and try to save the land.

Source: Light Is Not Good / Web Comics

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