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English to English adjective
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Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | | Example: a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
vicious kicks
source: wordnet30 noun
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See Crewel. | | source: webster1913
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