Cruel and Extreme

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Cruel adjective - Hard to accept or bear especially emotionally.

Usage example: the cruel situation of being orphaned at an early age

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Extreme and cruel are semantically related in character trait topic. In some cases you can use "Extreme" instead an adjective "Cruel".

Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

Extreme adjective - Most distant from a center.

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Cruel and extreme are semantically related in character trait topic. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Extreme".

The Extremist Was Right: Yang sadly accepts that no matter how cruel or extreme Weiss' decisions were, it was the right choice and not doing so would lead to something much worse.

Source: Fanfic / A World Of Bloody Evolution
One of the more extreme examples of this was the snowglobe gag in "Gus' Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy", which sailed right past "cruel prank" into "cruel and unusual".

Source: Series / Psych
McTavish's extreme displeasure at having a woman aboard his ship causes him to be unnecessarily cruel to her.

Source: Literature / Passage to November

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