Cruel
Cruel adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.
Mechanical and cruel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mechanical" instead an adjective "Cruel".
Mechanical
Mechanical adjective - Done instantly and without conscious thought or decision.
Cruel and mechanical are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Mechanical".
Both words in one sentence
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Haughty, egotistic and very cruel at times, they made mechanical devices, metaphysical theorem and buildings using technologies and materials centuries more advanced than anything seen since.
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Saturday Night Live featured a Parody Commercial of a Roach Motel-esque glue trap that does cruel things to the roaches as they lay stuck there, such as getting their legs pulled off by mechanical arms.
Source: Creepy Cockroach
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Mechanical and Cruel. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cruel/mechanical
Cruel & Mechanical. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cruel/mechanical>.
Mechanical or Cruel. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cruel/mechanical.
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