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disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others
- far from being healers, the doctors in the Nazi death camps were notable for their senseless cruelness
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“Cruelness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cruelness. Accessed 9 Aug. 2022.
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