Cruel and Empty

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

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

Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

Empty adjective - Lacking contents that could or should be present.

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Cruel and empty are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Empty".

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Cruel Mercy: When Dean discovers Max and Page's plan he threatens to kill them, only for Max to point out his gun is empty.

Source: Film / Heartbreakers
First is Celestia, who sums her up as an cruel, unfeeling and empty husk of a creature unable to even comprehend love, made so by the abuse at the hooves of her cruel father, King Thorax the Terrible.

Source: The Reason You Suck Speech / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Non-Canon)
They beat the character with one cruel stroke of fate after another until they are just an Empty Shell of their former cheerful, carefree self.

Source: Break the Cutie

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