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bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
Thu May 10, 2018, 10:07 PM May 2018

The synonyms and antonyms of the word cruelty define the parties

Synonyms of cruelty
barbarity, barbarousness, brutality, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness
ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness
bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, cattiness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness
hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness

Near Antonyms of cruelty
tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth
charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity
benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cruelty

This is why I am a member of the imperfect Democratic Party. No doubt the Democratic Party does not completely live up to the antonyms of cruelty but the goal of charitableness is there. The GOP and Cheeto are totally connected to spitefulness, bloodlust, cattiness, mercilessness.

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