What's the difference between cruelly and gruelly?
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.