Cruel and Dishonest

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Cruel adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.

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Dishonest and cruel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dishonest" instead an adjective "Cruel".

Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

Dishonest adjective - Telling or containing lies.

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Cruel and dishonest are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Dishonest".

Nearby Words: dishonesty, dishonestly

When Celestia's tutelage did not turn out to be the easy path, she "turned cruel, dishonest and rebellious," abandoning her studies and pursuing power in more unsavory ways.

Source: A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil
All Myths Are True Always Chaotic Evil: Quite a few characters, notably Fenris and his Trickster companions Abonsam and Bet Jogie, are cruel, destructive and dishonest simply because it's what they are.

Source: Comicbook / Lucifer
It's something of a 50/50 whether an Aspie wishes they weren't, or they may actually look down on Neurotypical people, thinking of them as mindless sheep following the status quo, dishonest and arrogant, or even cruel and insensitive.

Source: Useful Notes / Asperger Syndrome

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