Destructive
Destructive adjective - Causing or tending to cause destruction.
Forceful and destructive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Forceful" instead an adjective "Destructive".
Forceful
Forceful adjective - Having the power to persuade.
Destructive and forceful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Destructive" instead an adjective "Forceful".
Both words in one sentence
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He takes a Hands-On Approach with the female fencing club members, dates and beds Shiori, whom he later utterly humiliates, and is very forceful with Juri, despite the fact that he's supposedly trying to help her break free of her self-destructive cycle.
Source: The Casanova
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