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Bullying vs Cruel - What's the difference?

bullying | cruel |

As verbs the difference between bullying and cruel

is that bullying is while cruel is to spoil or ruin (one's chance of success).

As a noun bullying

is an act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.

As an adjective cruel is

not nice; mean; heartless.

bullying

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
  • Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.
  • See also

    * * mobbing

    Verb

    (head)
  • ----

    cruel

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Not nice; mean; heartless.
  • The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
  • (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
  • Synonyms

    * brutal * sadistic * vicious

    Antonyms

    * merciful

    Derived terms

    * cruelly

    Verb

  • To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
  • Anagrams

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