Difference between Vicious and Cruel

VICIOUS vs CRUEL: NOUN

Cool; awesome; neat.
Not nice; mean; heartless.
Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress.
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering
(of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain
Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy

Refractory, ugly.
Synonyms and Wicked, Depraved, etc. (see criminal), unprincipled, licentious, profligate.
Characterized by severity; virulent; malignant; spiteful: as, a vicious attack.
Not well broken or trained; given to objectionable tricks: said of an animal.
Faulty; incorrect; not pure; corrupt: as, a vicious style.
Impure; foul; vitiated: as, vicious humors.
Contrary to moral principles or to rectitude; perverse; pernicious; evil; bad.
Marked by deep ill will
Deliberately harmful
Characterized by vice or imperfection; faulty; defective.
Addicted to vice; habitually transgressing moral law; depraved; profligate; wicked.

Synonyms Barbarous, savage, ferocious, brutal, merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, unfeeling, fell, ruthless, truculent, bloodthirsty, inexorable, unrelenting.
Proceeding from or exhibiting indifference to or pleasure in the suffering of others; causing pain, grief, or distress; performed or exerted in tormenting, vexing, or afflicting: as, a cruel act; a cruel disposition; the cruel treatment of animals.
Disposed to inflict suffering, physical or mental; indifferent to or taking pleasure in the pain or distress of any sentient being; willing or pleased to torment, vex, or afflict; destitute of pity, compassion, or kindness; hard-hearted; pitiless.
Very; extremely.

Ferocious, Fell, Roughshod, Malicious, Poisonous, Inhumane, Evil, Malevolent, Barbarous, Depraved, Wicked, Cruel, Venomous, Brutal, Savage

Inhuman, Callous, Barbaric, Fell, Roughshod, Rigorous, Hard, Barbarous, Unkind, Harsh, Vicious, Savage, Heartless, Brutal, Inhumane

Ferocious, Fell, Roughshod, Malicious, Poisonous, Inhumane, Evil, Malevolent, Barbarous, Depraved, Wicked, Cruel, Venomous, Brutal, Savage

Inhuman, Callous, Barbaric, Fell, Roughshod, Rigorous, Hard, Barbarous, Unkind, Harsh, Vicious, Savage, Heartless, Brutal, Inhumane

Spike and Vicious turned out very well too.
Much of the movie is just plain vicious.
We can help you exit this vicious cycle.
Joseph, they hated him with a vicious hatred.
It is a vicious exercise in maximizing efficiency.
And the newspapermen were just vicious about it and the Senators were all vicious about it.
Yeaa the set is called vicious serpent but the gear is of the vicious ophidian.
The Alliance mount Vicious White Warsaber now correctly changes to Vicious White Bonesteed for Horde characters.
If the person we love is vicious, undoubtedly our friendship is vicious.
And that was just a vicious, vicious cycle.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, and torture would surely meet the standard of cruel and unusual.
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.
This extreme level of cruel treatment of a human being, however despicably such person might have treated another human being, is still inherently cruel.
Every cruel child is on the hunt for them; every cruel ride is engineered for their destruction.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a duty to investigate observed or reasonably suspected animal abandonment, cruel neglect, or cruel mistreatment.
The only thing that makes me feel better is knowing ur in a better place and away from this cruel, cruel world!
It does not please my lord that anyone should mistreat me, you cruel, cruel people.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment, or Just Plain Cruel?
PERFECT run, but fate was a cruel, cruel mistress.
Oh, what a cruel, cruel woman Barbara Hambly was.