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Highly cruel or violent in nature

Significant or extreme in degree or intensity

Savagely fierce, cruel, or violent

Characterized by fierce, extreme, or violent energy or force

Characterized, or marked, by much busy (or stressful) activity

Not domesticated

Harshly sarcastic or satirical in nature

Prone to slaughtering

Very serious or gloomy in expression or demeanor

Having qualities resembling those of steel, especially hard and resolute

Having extreme enthusiasm or energy

Full of anger or spite

Painful or unpleasant to accept or contemplate

Very severe or serious

Defiantly aggressive or bad-tempered

Aggressively greedy or grasping

Requiring great effort or exertion

With no holds barred

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Adjective

Highly cruel or violent in nature

with a heart of stone

desensitized^US

take-no-prisoners

lacking compassion

uncompassionate

desensitised^UK

Mephistophelian

intensely competitive

every person for themselves

fiercely competitive

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“Fighting has been ferocious.”

Adjective

Significant or extreme in degree or intensity

industrial-strength

all-encompassing

more than one can bear

more than flesh and blood can stand

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“The ferocious cost-cutting will inevitably have serious implications for airline safety.”

Adjective

Savagely fierce, cruel, or violent

unfavourable^UK

suggestive of evil

life-threatening

disadvantageous

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“The animal is a most ferocious and savage looking one.”

Adjective

Characterized by fierce, extreme, or violent energy or force

hammer and tongs

knock-down-and-drag-out

full of upheavals

full of ups and downs

at the boiling point

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Adjective

Characterized, or marked, by much busy (or stressful) activity

hammer and tongs

knock-down-and-drag-out

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Adjective

Not domesticated

unused to humans

in a state of nature

unsophisticated

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Adjective

Harshly sarcastic or satirical in nature

extremely critical

highly effective

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Adjective

Prone to slaughtering

involving bloodshed

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Adjective

Very serious or gloomy in expression or demeanor

desensitized^US

take-no-prisoners

desensitised^UK

with a heart of stone

uncompassionate

uncommunicative

lacking compassion

having a killer instinct

involving bloodshed

evil-intentioned

out for revenge

life-threatening

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Adjective

Having qualities resembling those of steel, especially hard and resolute

having killer instinct

bound and determined

intensely competitive

stop at nothing

fiercely competitive

pulling no punches

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Adjective

Having extreme enthusiasm or energy

fast and furious

beside yourself

hot under the collar

like one possessed

out of one's head

out of one's skull

over-enthusiastic

in a cold sweat

at your wits' end

hot and bothered

at the end of your tether

foaming at the mouth

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Adjective

Full of anger or spite

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Adjective

Painful or unpleasant to accept or contemplate

unsportsmanlike

heart-wrenching

unfavourable^UK

poverty-stricken

life-threatening

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

full of hardship

anti-democratic

unpleasant-tasting

ill-favoured^UK

tough as old boots

unfit for human consumption

causing discomfort

strong-smelling

overextravagant

knock-down-and-drag-out

hammer and tongs

full of confusion

full of ups and downs

full of conflict

full of upheavals

more than one can bear

more than flesh and blood can stand

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Adjective

Very severe or serious

overextravagant

out of proportion

disproportionate

costing an arm and a leg

out of all proportion

recrementitious

dyed-in-the-wool

wildly excessive

blown up out of all proportion

grossly excessive

excessively high

without justification

surplus to requirements

daylight robbery

highway robbery

costing the earth

over one's head

beyond the pale

not giving an inch

root-and-branch

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Adjective

Defiantly aggressive or bad-tempered

confrontational

ready for a fight

spoiling for a fight

have chip on shoulder

have a bone to pick

looking for trouble

itching to fight

having a chip on one's shoulder

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Adjective

Aggressively greedy or grasping

Adjective

Requiring great effort or exertion

energy-consuming

easier said than done

like getting blood out of a stone

pick-and-shovel

full of problems

beset by problems

no piece of cake

life-threatening

difficult to achieve

causing discomfort

covered with sweat

not to be borne

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Idiom

With no holds barred

with no holds barred

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