be cruel to be kind
scapegoat
pave the road to hell
malice
mean
pay
do someone dirty
malicious
reap the whirlwind
smoke
cruelize
humiliate
fuck around and find out
cattiness
spitefulness
spite
disaster
bitchiness
nastiness
fail at life
get medieval
self-abuse
dooming
bite in the arse
malevolent
maleficent
maliciousness
eat someone's heart
cusp
barbarousness
cut off one's nose to spite one's face
malefactory
atrocity
barbarity
heinousness
atrociousness
scorched-earth policy
animalization
catastrophism
heap coals of fire on someone's head
brutalisation
sufferably
animalisation
awfulize
brutalization
have
vengesome
retributionist
dig one's own grave
drive a nail in someone's coffin
maltreatment
abuse
stonecatcher
pick away at
ill-usage
confound
tickle the dragon's tail
wallow
ill-treatment
abash
well-meant
break bad
come to grief
unhappily
design
tragicize
burn one's fingers
malintent
darkhearted
outrage
sia suay
persecute
self-harm
invoker
wickedness
self-punishment
victimize
intropunitive
extrapunitive
malefic
revictimize
go wrong
vindicatory
vindictive
cruelty
conduct
aggravation
smite
brutalise
malevolency
be riding for a fall
victimage
self-redress
chillax
vindictiveness

English words for 'To act cruelly in order to achieve a positive outcome in the future.'

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