grinding, galling.
     harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious[obs3];
invidious; uncandid; churlish &c. (discourteous) 895; surly, sullen &c. 901a.
     cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-
hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural; ruthless &c. (unmerciful) 914a; relentless &c. (revengeful) 919.
     cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger;
ferine[obs3], ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty &c. (murderous) 361; atrocious; bloodyminded[obs3].
     fiendish, fiendlike[obs3]; 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].

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     #908.  Malediction. —­ N. malediction, malison[obs3], curse,
imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination[obs3], thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3], 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[obs3]! 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[obs3]! honi soit[Fr]! parbleu[Fr]! 
     Phr. delenda est Carthago[Lat].

     #909.  Threat. —­ N. threat, menace; defiance &c. 715; abuse,
minacity[obs3], intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination &c. (curse) 908[obs3]; 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,