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ill usage

cruel or inhumane treatment

Impiteous

Pitiless cruel

Boarish

Swinish brutal cruel

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Bloody minded

Having a cruel ferocious disposition bloodthirsty

maltreatment

Cruel or inhumane treatment ill usage abuse

death penalty

death penalty : death as punishment for a crime called also capital punishment see also cruel and unusual punishment Gregg v. Georgia in the Important Cases section NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court has held

corporal punishment

corporal punishment : punishment inflicted on a person's body see also cruel and unusual punishment NOTE: The prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S.

VerbarOxymoron

A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word e g cruel kindness laborious idleness

Khond

Dravidian of a group of tribes of Orissa India a section of whom were formerly noted for their cruel human sacrifices to the earth goddess murder of female infants and marriage by capture

Merciless

Destitute of mercy cruel unsparing said of animate beings and also figuratively of things as a merciless tyrant merciless waves

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