惨さん烈れつ

na-adjective, noun

horrible; cruel; atrocious

Literary or formal word describing extreme cruelty, horror, or atrocity. Rare in everyday speech; more common in written descriptions of war, violence, or severe suffering.

• その小しょう説せつは戦せん争そうの惨さん烈れつな現げん実じつを描えがいている。

  The novel depicts the atrocious reality of war.

• 惨さん烈れつな事じ件けんのニュースが世せ界かい中じゅうに衝しょう撃げきを与あたえた。

  News of the horrific incident shocked the world.