(a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
(a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
(a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
Example Sentences:
(1) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
(2) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(3) It goes on: "In a reality of ongoing occupation, of solid cynicism and meanness, each and every one of us bears the moral obligation to try to relieve the suffering, do something to bend back the occupation's giant, cruel hand."
(4) At one point, Walters speculates that “she looks the same weight as the Duchess – about 8st”; later, he disingenuously asks her to discuss “the cruel comments about being a ‘childless spinster’”, neither telling readers who made those “cruel comments” in the first place, or where.
(5) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(6) The government confirmed on Tuesday that the second year of the cull had begun, sparking outrage from animal rights activists, campaigners and opposition politicians who claim it is cruel and ineffective.
(7) Her friends have been arrested and subjected to what they describe as cruel and inhumane treatment .
(8) The jury decided unanimously Thursday that the Colorado attack was cruel enough to justify the death penalty .
(9) One of its board members is retired Major General Andrew James “Jim” Molan, co-architect of Tony Abbott’s “Operation Sovereign Borders,” the draconian program relying on the remote island detention centres condemned as cruel and inhumane by multiple respected human rights organisations.
(10) MOAB map “Isis were so cruel to us,” said Ahmad.
(11) Philip French championed Boyle's career from the outset, describing his debut feature film, Shallow Grave , as "a good piece of storytelling... Hitchcock would have admired its ruthlessness and cruel humour."
(12) S an Francisco is now a cruel place and a divided one.
(13) In a rather florid letter with classical, literary and historical references, he told her: "You, I already know from happy experience, will not be cruel to my tender flame … As I think of you I shall learn to love you more.
(14) Of course the timing was cruel, aimed at throwing the prime minister off balance just before what turned out to be a fairly successful Commons question time.
(15) He could be very charming, he could be very cruel, but he mattered and he put something together that was extraordinary."
(16) One of the first demands is that the bombardments by the regime and its [Russian] backers must end.” Merkel condemned the air raids on Syria’s second city as “inhumane and cruel”.
(17) While Liverpool seemed stretched by cruel successive away fixtures, Chelsea arguably mustered some of their finest attacking football of the campaign through that ferocious opening period.
(18) If you follow Twitter regularly, it's easy to believe that many of our fellow citizens are cruel, mean, misogynist and foul-mouthed.
(19) We perceive the circumstances of our youth as normal and unexceptional, however sparse or cruel they may be.
(20) "It's outrageous and cruel that people are taken off to detention and the families hear nothing until the body shows up with signs of abuse," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
Cruelly
Definition:
(adv.) In a cruel manner.
(adv.) Extremely; very.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also told MPs the Libya campaign had shown Nato's over reliance on the US, and how it had "cruelly exposed" the limitations of the capabilities of some European countries.
(2) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(3) This bi-polar world cruelly separated millions of families.
(4) The NT makes an ambitious and worthwhile argument: the evidence of a misaligned system of food production is evident at almost every stage – in polluted watercourses and compacted land, in horsemeat passed off as beef and foreign produce repackaged and traded as British, in gangmasters cruelly exploiting migrant labour, and the processing industry cheating on quality.
(5) John Banville I find The Story of O deeply erotic precisely because the woman at the centre of it holds all the power, even though she seems the one most cruelly treated.
(6) Behind that shy charm was solid steel, capable of being applied quite cruelly in the paper’s interests To his father’s dismay, David seemed a lost soul after Eton and Oxford, but with the outbreak of war he began to involve himself with the Observer .
(7) Then there were the awful photographs of Liverpool football fans cruelly pressed against the crowd-control fences of Hillsborough: surely those people couldn't be dying on that spring afternoon?
(8) Nobody can argue that the road network is inadequate, and a move would in turn generate work - WILLIAMDAVIES It is the south-west that has been even more cruelly ignored by parties of all persuasions.
(9) Vanuatu is another country where we are doing that work although, cruelly, they’ve already had a head start due to the repairing of water systems due to cyclone Pam.
(10) Two months later, Henson died suddenly at the cruelly young age of 53.
(11) So instead of Texas's celebrations the most vital lasting image of the day had nothing to do with Texas’s triumph, it was the sight of the players on the ASU bench, collapsed on the floor, their chance at making history cruelly extinguished.
(12) Cruelly, it was not until several years later that Ali admitted he was suffering from the disease.
(13) It was US diplomats who back in November 2008 cruelly dubbed him Robin, to Vladimir Putin's Batman.
(14) The previous Friday, I took a photo that went viral of pro-police brutality demonstrators wearing sweatshirts which read, “I Can Breathe”, cruelly taunting Black Lives Matter activists by twisting Eric Garner’s final words.
(15) Amnesty said: "Maikel Nabil Sanad's trial has been rife with flaws and unnecessary delays, and the decision of the appeals court for a retrial brings him back to square one, cruelly toying with his life.
(16) Poland underwent a frenzy of over-excited hype about its shale gas deposits, only to be cruelly disappointed by the detailed geology.
(17) "I was cruelly tricked and it has made me very angry.
(18) Another debate speaker launched a simile about a broken-legged camel that was cruelly cut off by the red light.)
(19) By my early 20s I had been cruelly disabused of the notion that the young live for ever.
(20) They were intended, cruelly, to entertain with their abnormal physical condition, but deeper and mysterious qualities were attributed to dwarves, as they were to Lear’s Fool and later to clowns: of intellectual prowess, clairvoyance and wisdom in the hollow laughter that ridicules power, and watches the march of time and age as a leveller of men.