Cruel and Hopeless

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

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

Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

Hopeless adjective - Not capable of being cured or reformed.

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Cruel and hopeless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Hopeless".

Nearby Words: hope, hopeful, hopelessness, hopelessly

This viewpoint usually requires that he become a hopeless romantic and that everyone else is unreasonably cruel to him, even Lily, but particularly James and the rest of the Marauders.

Source: Alternative Character Interpretation / Harry Potter
The Gambling Addict: One of The Chairman's first cruel acts on opening his school was to turn a student into a hopeless gambling addict as revenge for him bullying a student from his old cram school until he commited suicide.

Source: Manga / Assassination Classroom
Orsino thinks he's in love with Olivia, but actually he's in love with himself ("my desires, like fell and cruel hounds/E'er since pursue me.") Viola, hopeless in her love for him because he doesn't know that she's a girl, plays the role of Echo.

Source: Theatre / Twelfth Night

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