Cruel
Rank
Rank adjective - Growing thickly and vigorously.
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- In The Gamer's Alliance, the four demonic Dreadlords/ladies of Yamato hold the rank of count/countess, and they are very cruel and ambitious while serving their masters' needs.
Source: Aristocrats Are Evil - Nearly everyone of noble rank is cruel or a self-centered asshat, or both.
Source: Literature / Fool -
The novels show that a lot of minor Dark Others aren't evil — the above-mentioned werewolf, and earlier, the dark ones Maxim killed, and such, but it also shows that the rank-and-file ones in the Day Watch are happy to engage in cruel acts of child murder, or rape.
Source: Literature / Night Watch
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