Cruelty - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- feelings of extreme heartlessness
- the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance (syn: harshness)
Extra examples
The cruelty of children can be surprising.
They protested against cruelty to animals.
The children had suffered cruelty and neglect.
There was a hint of cruelty in Brian's smile.
The deliberate cruelty of his words cut her like a knife.
...arrested for using a rod on his dogs in violation of the state's animal cruelty laws...
...a consortium for the prevention of animal cruelty...
...such emotional cruelty will rapidly alien any friends you might possibly have left...
She divorced him on the grounds of intolerable cruelty.
...a film critic noted for the vitriol and sometimes outright cruelty of his pronouncements...
They were accused of wanton cruelty toward animals.
I cannot conceive of such cruelty as to take a child away from its mother.
The government of Nero at this moment presented a spectacle of awful cruelty and abysmal degradation.
Their suspicions egged them to cruelty.
Lord Clarendon says that all manner of cruelty was executed.
Word forms
singular: cruelty
plural: cruelties
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