Cruel
Cruel adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.
Embittered and cruel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Embittered" instead an adjective "Cruel".
Embittered
Embittered adjective - Having or showing deep-seated resentment.
Usage example: gradually the embittered woman realized that her lingering feelings of hatred were slowly destroying her
Cruel and embittered are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Embittered".
Nearby Word: embittering
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Doing it sober just results in a variety of cruel and embittered jokes about what arseholes drunk people are.
Source: Drunken Master - Coupled with the destruction of his hometown and the deaths of everyone he loved to the same illness that would kill him, the poor guy completely lost all hope and became very cruel and embittered, but then a man named Doquixote Rocinante offered him kindness and looked for a way to heal him.
Source: Ill Girl / Anime and Manga -
And he was getting worse, evolving into a very embittered Stepford Snarker who told cruel jokes that mocked everyone (something he had never done in the past) until Anna got to confront him.
Source: Sad Clown
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