(Of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering.
Very bad in degree or extent (e.g. of depression or damage).
1 They are corrupt; they are base; they are cowardly; they are cruel .
2 The cruel legal formalities were begun the first thing in the morning.
3 But he could be as cruel as the grave in other ways.
4 And They are cruel ; cruelty is even in Their tread and expression.
5 And excessive fines have been imposed; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted.
6 This terrific force is conditioned in our cruel social and economic arrangement.
7 The Church has done many cruel things in the name of Christianity.
8 The case was prejudged; the trial, a cruel and an empty form.
9 It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest, in piercing inclemency.
10 In Britain the lions are securely chained, and the cruel giants disabled.
11 The cruel fate of Magdeburg excited the alarm of the Protestant princes.
12 Another was brutally cruel to animals; another was the impersonation of laziness.
13 The most cruel tyrant the northern lands ever knew was Christian II.
14 There be enough dead things in the cruel forest as it is.
15 No; but it was cruel to make you have to do it.
16 It is cruel to the animal, and decidedly dangerous to the hunter.
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