ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marblehearted,
stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural; ruthless &c (unmerciful) 914.1; relentless
&c (revengeful) 919.
cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine † , ferocious;
inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent,
incendiary; bloodthirsty &c (murderous) 361; atrocious; bloodyminded † .
fiendish, fiendlike † ; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish, infernal, hellish,
Satanic; Tartaran.
Adv. malevolently &c adj.; with bad intent &c n..
Phr. cruel as death; hard unkindness' alter'd eye [Gray]; homo homini lupus [Lat.]
[Plautus]; mala mens [Lat.], malus animus [Lat.] [Terence]; rich gifts wax poor when
givers prove unkind [Hamlet]; sharp-tooth'd unkindness [Lear].
908. Malediction -- N. malediction, malison † , curse, imprecation, denunciation,
execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination † , thunders of
the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha † ; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation.
abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language;
billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing &c v.; profane swearing, oath; foul invective,
ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility.
threat &c 909; more bark than bite; invective &c (disapprobation) 932.
V. curse, accurse † , imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke
curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction.
execrate, beshrew † , scold; anathematize &c (censure) 932; bold up to execration,
denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten &c 909.
curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.
Adj. cursing, cursed &c v..
Int. woe to!, beshrew! † , ruat coelum! [Lat.], ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize!,
damn!, damn it!, damn you!, damn you to hell!, go to hell!, go to blazes!, confound!,
blast!, curse!, devil take!, hang!, out with!, a plague upon!, out upon!, aroynt! † , honi soit!
[Fr.], parbleu! [Fr.],
Phr. delenda est Carthago [Lat.].
909. Threat -- N. threat, menace; defiance &c 715; abuse, minacity † , intimidation;
denunciation; fulmination; commination &c (curse) 908 [Obs.]; gathering clouds &c
(warning) 668.
V. threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully.
defy &c 715; intimidate &c 860; keep in terrorem [Lat.], hold up in terrorem [Lat.],
hold out in terrorem [Lat.]; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder,
talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers.
Adj. threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious † ; comminatory † , abusive; in terrorem
[Lat.]; ominous &c (predicting) 511; defiant &c 715; under the ban.
Int. vae victis! [Lat.], at your peril!, do your worst!,
910. Philanthropy -- N. philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism universal
benevolence; endaemonism † , deliciae humani generis [Lat.]; cosmopolitanism
utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, social science, sociology