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Meanings of cruelty in English
Positive pleasure or indifference in inflicting suffering.
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Examples for "ruthlessness"
Examples for "ruthlessness"
1
Her speed and ruthlessness in front of goal are her best weapons.
2
In the sheer ruthlessness stakes, Malden was some way ahead of Saul.
3
The difference was again identified as New Zealand's ruthlessness off turnover ball.
4
They either have to quit or tolerate the ruthlessness of the system.
5
He hadn't foreseen the ruthlessness of the British in burying the crimes.
1
The mottoes on the banners attacked with impartial mercilessness both Democrats and Republicans.
2
The vile cruelty, the loathsome, unspeakable, dastardly mercilessness of the world.
3
But the full mercilessness of the migrant dilemma is confronted here to devastating effect.
4
The girl was appalled by the mercilessness of a destiny that had so outraged right.
5
There was a glint of mercilessness in his eyes.
1
That he was a hard man, austere to utter pitilessness, everybody averred.
2
It rang out clear and pitiless, with that pitilessness of a great love.
3
The whole pitilessness of her nature gleamed like a cold light in her white face.
4
The nothingness of man against the pitilessness of fate made all the world a blank.
5
She recalled the look his face had worn, the sternness, the pitilessness of his eyes.
Usage of cruelty in English
1
There were also animals potentially at risk of cruelty at a rodeo.
2
But when it comes to halal meat they talk of animal cruelty.
3
And They are cruel; cruelty is even in Their tread and expression.
4
Hate and cruelty for the most part rule in the animal world.
5
The hardship, cruelty, and violence of the world had begun their education.
6
People kept rushing into the store threatening prosecution for cruelty to animals.
7
Nothing the future held could ever match the cruelty of the Vraad.
8
Ever believe that its actions were the product of ineptitude, not cruelty?
9
Those weren't just his personal effects; they were witnesses to the cruelty.
10
The purposeful cruelty of the man was inherent; it was entirely untheatrical.
11
He stomped on the man's genitals in a moment of particular cruelty.
12
So the crisis is over -now when does the cruelty stop?
13
War had been declared, but it seemed remote in its actual cruelty.
14
What depths of cruelty and obscenity it revealed in the Parisian rabble.
15
He turned aside; the feeling of his cruelty mounted higher and higher.
16
Some people said there was a cruelty about Moses and his methods.
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Catalan
Cruelty through the time
Cruelty across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Australia
Common
Ireland
Common
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