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Heartless :: Heartless (a.) Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel.

Hard :: Hard (superl.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character..

Ruffian :: Ruffian (n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat..

Cruel :: Cruel (a.) 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..

Dog-hearted :: Dog-hearted (a.) Inhuman; cruel.

Merciless :: Merciless (a.) Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves..

Barbarity :: Barbarity (n.) Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.

Stonehenge :: Stone-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Massacre :: Massacre (n.) The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day..

Unmerciful :: Unmerciful (a.) Not merciful; indisposed to mercy or grace; cruel; inhuman; merciless; unkind.

Sanguinary :: Sanguinary (a.) Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.

Darkly :: Darkly (adv.) With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look..

Cruel :: Cruel (a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery..

Nero :: Nero (n.) A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant..

Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..

Mankind :: Mankind (a.) Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.

Revolt :: Revolt (n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty..

Treat :: Treat (v. t.) To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly..

Carnal :: Carnal (a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

Heathenish :: Heathenish (a.) Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.

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