(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.
Heartless
Definition:
(a.) Without a heart.
(a.) Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent.
(a.) Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(2) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(3) He has also declared that he will deport 11 million illegal immigrants, which opponents say is both heartless and impractical.
(4) It isn't only heartless, it puts at risk all the time, effort, care and money that has been spent on the children in the years before.
(5) The dogma that keeps people heartlessly alive is not religious but entirely secular: it is the fear of lawyers and not the fear of God which runs health policy today.
(6) Now that the false claims against Planned Parenthood have fallen apart, politicians are heartlessly scrambling to attack women’s access to health care however they can.
(7) The political impasses and economic shocks in our societies, and the irreparably damaged environment, corroborate the bleakest views of 19th-century critics who condemned modern capitalism as a heartless machinery for economic growth, or the enrichment of the few, which works against such fundamentally human aspirations as stability, community and a better future.
(8) The disaster has led to a surge of anger in Turkey , fuelled by what many saw as a heartless response from the government.
(9) Theirs is a coalition of the last stand against the heartless armies of the EU.
(10) So even from a heartless, self-interested economic point of view, it is perverse to be locking up at prohibitive expense people who have a lot to contribute to Australia.
(11) 4.56am GMT There is a question now asking whether Malaysian officials had been "heartless."
(12) When Missouri prosecutors said they had no relevant state law to prosecute Drew and her admittedly heartless helpers in this scheme, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles hauled Drew there to face charges under the CFAA.
(13) He made a rare intervention to remind the Conservatives that they lose when they look heartless, that there is a silent phenomenon of " lace curtain poverty " in Britain and that exorbitant energy prices have left many choosing between eating and heating their homes.
(14) Heartless celebration under attack As goal celebrations go, few have come across in such poor taste as Santiago Silva's last week for Vélez Sársfield.
(15) The broadcaster and former footballer Gary Lineker tweeted that the reception by some had been “hideously racist and utterly heartless”.
(16) The middle classes of Britain will rally round their sick family member and pitch in financially rather than see their loved one risk their lives by enduring such heartless treatment from the Department of Work and Pensions.
(17) To a cynic, that might read like a heartless thought.
(18) Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless.
(19) "The modern City is in many ways a cruel, heartless place," Kynaston observes, "and its occupants work such cripplingly long hours that inevitably they lack much of the roundedness of earlier generations."
(20) Had I dreamed up a plot of such cruel folly and heartlessness as May has provided, it would have been dismissed as too far-fetched, even propagandist.