3 synonym groups for Cruel

cruelty, brutality, savagery, ferocity, malice, malevolence, ruthlessness, barbarity, inhumanity, heartlessness, mercilessness, callousness, sadism, venom, spite, malignity, wickedness, atrocity, fiendishness, heinousness, monstrosity, evilness, viciousness, diabolism, devilishness, nefariousness, malignancy, balefulness, perniciousness, venomousness, acrimony, bitterness, rancor, hostility, animosity, enmity, antagonism, hatred, hatefulness, meanness, nastiness, savageness, truculence, fierceness, grimness, harshness, severity, pitilessness, remorselessness [x]

skinning, peeling, stripping, excoriating, flensing, paring, desquamating, scalping, shearing, sloughing [x]

merciless, pitiless, cruel, heartless, brutal, callous, remorseless, unfeeling, unsparing, inhumane, savage, fierce, relentless, implacable, uncompassionate, unforgiving, unmerciful, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, iron-hearted, stone-hearted, harsh, severe, stern, grim, unrelenting, unyielding, ruthless [x]