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: Webster 1913
noun
See Crewel.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
A barbarous crime. Brutal beatings. Cruel tortures. Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks. A savage slap. Vicious kicks.
