Cruel and Heavy

Cruel

Cruel adjective - Difficult to endure.
Usage example: the cruel climate of the Arctic

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

Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

Heavy

Heavy adjective - Difficult to endure.
Usage example: ignoring common sense, she drank the parasite-infested pond water and paid a heavy penalty for it

Cruel and heavy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Heavy".

Both words in one sentence

  • Goosebumps stories made heavy usage of cruel twist endings, while Are You Afraid of the Dark?
  • Spanish band Amaral made a cruel subversion of this trope in their latest album, where the girl gets into drugs and heavy drinking and esentially wastes her life intoxicated.
    Source: Uptown Girl
  • Gray Rain of Depression aka: Grey Rain Of Depression Also, it's under a heavy and cold rain that Rei waits for five hours for Fukiko, not knowing that it's one of Fukiko's cruel mind-games.
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