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Meanings of cruelty to animals in English

Russian
живодёрство
Portuguese
crueldade para com os animais
Spanish
crueldad animal
Catalan
maltractament animal
Wikidata

Human infliction of suffering or harm upon non-human animals, for purposes other than self-defense or survival.

живодёрство
Usage of cruelty to animals in English
1
People kept rushing into the store threatening prosecution for cruelty to animals.
The new yorker
2
His childhood was also marked by chronic bed-wetting and cruelty to animals.
Mindhunter
3
In spite of his imaginative temperament, his cruelty to animals is flagrant.
The Great White Tribe in Filipinia
4
And then the Humane society had pa arrested for cruelty to animals.
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
5
I call it cruelty to animals myself, having women like that around.
Soldiers of Fortune
6
He called for a coordinated effort by gardaí to eliminate cruelty to animals.
The Irish Times
7
Sydney designer Kakopieros says her collection is a statement against cruelty to animals.
Radio NZ
8
It effectively is cruelty to animals and there is no need for it.
Radio NZ
9
Like, genetic engineering or systematic cruelty to animals or political incorrectness?
After dark
10
Presumably they didn't have time to suffer, so it isn't cruelty to animals.
The blood spilt
11
I call it cruelty to animals to leave us on tenter-hooks.
The Luckiest Girl in the School
12
If they'd suffered, it could have been cruelty to animals.
The blood spilt
13
The Corporal sent a policeman to arrest the inhuman wretch for cruelty to animals.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and i...
14
Pa was afraid the humane society would have us arrested for cruelty to animals.
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
15
And their cruelty to animals is not deliberate or vindictive-itarises from crass stupidity.
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
16
One of his first compositions was against cruelty to animals.
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories / A Complete Collection of the Funny...