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

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

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