Cruel and Wasteful

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

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

Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

Wasteful adjective - Given to spending money freely or foolishly.

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Cruel and wasteful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Wasteful".

Nearby Words: waste, wasted, wasting, wastage, wastefulness

Actually shooting a horse is, of course, cruel, expensive, wasteful, and probably illegal, but is sometimes done where the law doesn't prohibit it.

Source: Invulnerable Horses
Even Evil Has Standards: Caster, canonically Neutral Evil, was quite unimpressed with her Master, considering his use of liquified children to power his magecraft wasteful and pointlessly cruel.

Source: Anime / Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]
A man accomplishes this by wishing, without any change in himself, to be the most sickly, miserable, lonely, needy, cruel, corrupt, wasteful, etc., etc., person in the world.

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