(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.
(2) The Super Eagles pushed France hard in their last-16 match in Brasilia only for Paul Pogba's late header and a last-gasp own-goal by Yobo to seal a 2-0 win for Les Bleus .
(3) In fact, the defence, which included Joseph Yobo at centre-half, were all over the place.
(4) France 2-0 Nigeria (Griezmann 90 +1) (Yobo) Nigeria concede possession again needlessly, Omeruo passing the ball back and out for a corner down the right.
(5) The toe of Yobo ensures the ball doesn't reach Benzema in a dangerous position on the left-hand edge of the area.
(6) If there was an element of good fortune about the way Dean Marney's side-footed shot was deflected by Tim Cahill's block, wrong-footing Howard in the process, Moyes must have been furious about the manner in which Yobo gave Hunt a second chance to make the cross.
(7) He fires it low into the six-yard box, where Griezmann gets ahead of Yobo and Enyeama at the right-hand post, and flicks into the empty net.
(8) Updated at 6.55pm BST 6.53pm BST 90 min +4: That's a Yobo own goal, looking again, I'm afraid.
(9) Stephen Keshi has announced he is stepping down as the Nigeria coach following the World Cup defeat to France, while defender Joseph Yobo has retired from international football.
(10) Social Media's Peter Odemwingie has been included in Nigeria's preliminary World Cup squad, alongside Mikel John Obi, Joseph Yobo, Victor Moses and Shola Ameobi.
(11) The Former Everton defender Yobo is also on his way out.
(12) Oh, and Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi and defender Jospeh Yobo stepped down after their team's exit .
(13) Subs: Yobo, Uzoenyi, Gabriel, Egwuekwe, Odemwingie, Odunlami, Ejide, Babatunde, Nwofor, Uchebo, Agbim, Ameobi Referee: Carlos Vera (Ecuador) Updated at 7.17pm BST 1.09pm BST Preamble Iran v Nigeria.
(14) Antoine Griezmann, Joseph Yobo and Vincent Enyeama look at the ball as it rolls towards the goal.
(15) The set piece, aimed towards Yobo at the near post, comes to nothing, but this is a nice open start.
(16) Nigeria make one enforced change, with Victor Moses replacing Michael Babatunde, who broke his left wrist against Argentina (or had it broken for him by a shot from the Gigi Riva de nos jours , his own team-mate Ogenyi Onazi): Enyeama, Ambrose, Yobo, Oshaniwa, Omeruo, Musa, Onazi, Mikel, Moses, Odemwingie, Emenike.
(17) On comes Joseph Yobo, who's making his 98th appearance for Nigeria.
(18) Stephen Hunt's cross from the left, made into a high looping delivery by a deflection off the head of Joseph Yobo, should have been easily dealt with but Sylvain Distin and Leighton Baines got in each other's way and the ball sat up nicely for Jozy Altidore to shoot.
(19) The president’s in favour and so is the sporting director.” Moyes talks about watching Joseph Yobo at Marseille, getting Tim Cahill, Andy Johnson and Phil Jagielka from the Championship, writing 24 reports on Joleon Lescott before eventually signing him, endless drives to Molineux.