Brutal and Pathetic

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Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.

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

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

Pathetic adjective - Deserving of one's pity.

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Brutal and pathetic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Pathetic".

Nearby Words: pathos, pathetically, pathetics

Brutal Honesty: Harley asks the others to honestly tell her if she sounds as pathetic and needy as Gaggy.

Source: Comic Book / Gotham City Sirens
Brutal Honesty: Due to being Literal-Minded, Drax continues to have no sense of how to talk about negative aspects of his friends without at some point sounding horrible.Drax: You just need to find a woman who is pathetic.

Source: Film / Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Training from Hell: On their debut adventure, The (replacement) Daltons start out as pathetic joke characters uncapable of anything bad, so they grind themselves through a brutal training regime to become more like the original Daltons.

Source: Comic Book / Lucky Luke

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