Cruelty and Pain

Cruelty

Cruelty noun - Disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others.

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Pain and cruelty are semantically related. in torment topic. In some cases you can use "Pain" instead a noun "Cruelty".

Nearby Words: cruel, cruelly

Pain noun - A sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body.

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Cruelty and pain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruelty" instead a noun "Pain".

Nearby Words: painful, pained, painfully, painless, paining

emotional	emotional cruelty	emotional pain
human	human cruelty	human pain
high	high cruelty	high pain
physical	physical cruelty	physical pain
Other adjectives: sheer, obvious, actual, real, constant, extreme, great, intense, inner, incredible, mental, general, unnecessary, further, extra, immense, chronic, unimaginable, added, horrific.

To the PainBalder: All the pain and cruelty you inflicted, I will carve into your flesh.

Source: Video Game / Too Human
The Ilwrath from Star Control II, who worship twin gods of cruelty and pain; their worship rituals take the form of killing and maiming en masse.

Source: Scary Dogmatic Aliens
The Morrigan becomes aware of this and actually wants to change for the better but cruelty and pain are so strongly associated with her worship that she is unable to see the world through any other metric.

Source: Jerkass Gods

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