Cruel
Partisan
Partisan adjective - Inclined to favor one side over another.
Cruel and partisan are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Partisan".
Nearby Word: partisanship
Both words in one sentence
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As the history of the French Revolution is a highly contentious and partisan issue, counter-revolutionary rebels such as those of the Vendée also got this, being portrayed as barely human, cruel, ignorant, religously fanatic peasants led by cruel and decadent aristocrats.
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Historical Villain Upgrade: James II is generally considered now not to have been so much a cruel tyrant, as a rather stupid, stubborn man with an exaggerated sense of his own rights; his faults have been exaggerated in the cause of partisan religious and political propaganda.
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