Cruel and Wounded

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

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

Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

Wounded adjective - Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle.

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Cruel and wounded are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Wounded".

Nearby Words: wound, wounding

Unfortunately, we can't really glorify their cruel treatment of the loyalist dead and wounded afterwards.

Source: Useful Notes / The American Revolution
Cruel Mercy: At the very end of the book, Heck has saved Elliot from Satan himself, but is grievously wounded and ready to die.

Source: Comic Book / Heck
This trope is what starts the main plot of Maleficent: King Henry, the cruel ruler of the humans, is fatally wounded in battle by Maleficent.

Source: Succession Crisis

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