How To Use Cruel In A Sentence

Avoid cruel and violent people, as they tend to take up cudgels with you on non-issues.
In Florida, cruel men shoot the mother bird. on their nests while they are rearing their young. because their plumage is prettiest at that time. Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography
The League Against Cruel Sports issued a statement Wednesday calling on Ottawa to "take steps to end the immense cruelty to animals in events such as calf-roping, which is practised at rodeos including the Calgary Stampede. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
For him, cruelty was a legitimate and necessary procedure, almost a profession of faith, and European artists showed him how to excruciate a tame local reality.
Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism

When stressed we are often the most cruel to those who we feel closest to. Times, Sunday Times
A man might be cruel but if you show your trust he will relent. THE TATTOOED GIRL
My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
It is a cruel fashion irony, but a shapeless dress looks good only on a shapely body. Times, Sunday Times
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it. George Santayana
Why does it surprise anyone that a company involved in a cruel business would act in a cruel, cold-hearted manner?
But there is another reason why a war between the two countries is so much to be deprecated, which is, that is must ever be a cruel and an irritating war. Diary in America, Series One
He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Don't kick the cat out like that, it's cruel; lift it out gently.
Bamie brushed aside this cruel fate as if it were no more than a nuisance.
Our woodcut is taken from the improved model produced by Mr. Stokey; no doubt Mr. Rarey took the idea of his gag-bit from the wooden gag, which has been in use among country farriers from time immemorial, to keep a horse's mouth while they are performing the cruel and useless operation of firing for lampas. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid
The man who's responsible for two of the most black-hearted exposés on psychological cruelty hadn't gone soft - just cheeky and satirical.
Football can be a cruel business and the Premiership is one of the most merciless and unforgiving of all leagues.
Of this cruel knight and felonous you have avenged this country. The High History of the Holy Graal
Long before we reach this stage, the quality of life for us would be unacceptable, cruel and inhumane. Times, Sunday Times
Many nights, I have cried myself to sleep over such cruel jibes. Times, Sunday Times
_They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity. Freeland A Social Anticipation
He was found guilty of animal cruelty and given a conditional discharge for six months. The Sun
FOOTBALL may be the beautiful game, but at times it can be horribly cruel. The Sun
Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife.
I see only those with a very short attention span and a cruel sense of humour finding it entertaining. Times, Sunday Times
Even through his harsh cruel manner of treating servants and others alike, he was smart, erudite, but also wise.
In the second place, he invented fishnets, a cruel device whereby innocent fish leap weeping to your frying pans.
Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. Times, Sunday Times
Heathcliff, who, kinless and kithless, was in the end compelled to see the property he has so cruelly amassed descend to his hereditary enemies. Emily Brontë
There can be no neutrality between justice and cruelty, between the innocent and the guilty.
Man is the cruelest animal. Friedrich Nietzsche
The sanctuary takes in cruelty and abuse cases and regularly receives referrals from the police.
So naturally he felt a force-feeding ban should be added to the many anticruelty laws already on the books, but he also freely acknowledged the practical benefits of fighting this particular battle. The Foie Gras Wars
He had mutated into one of the earth's most evil and cruel creatures imaginable.
He and my mother fought often, either when his cruelty surfaced or when his behaviour failed to meet her standards of propriety.
They believe they hold in their hands the beginnings of a brave new world of cruelty-free meat.
This is a particularly cruel irony because as the 1911 census revealed doctors had the smallest families of all categories of occupations.
He was cruel to his men, and to officers beneath his rank.
He was very lively, sharp-witted, and perceptive about many things - yet he could also be bitter, cruel in his observations, and reckless in his behaviour.
They listened, with eager attention, to the complaints of their captive children, who had suffered the most cruel indignities from the lustful or angry passions of their masters, and the same cruelties, the same indignities, were severely retaliated on the sons and daughters of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness. Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects – and alligators
But her shrill, naive polemicizing caused Michaels to inwardly wince, as if at a cruel reflection of himself. The Cry of the Onlies
Your death was determined to be “sudden unexplained death in epilepsy,” a term so cruelly nonsensical it might as well have been “fickle finger of fate.” Knowing Jesse
Pigs are innocent victims of a cruel, unrelenting slaughterhouse industry.
When stressed we are often the most cruel to those who we feel closest to. Times, Sunday Times
A ban on this horrendous daily cruelty to thousands of animals would impact on the profits of food producers.
We suggest that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human beings inflict on one another. Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?
Amazing: life on the lam might be cruel, but I hadn't looked this terrific in years. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Zegarnald's " tempering " had been a cruel and rocky road for R'shiel and she was a long way from the end. TREASON KEEP
But it seemed so cruel to pass a thread through his eyelids, -- which is called seeling, and must be done before he would bear the hood, -- that I could not think of it. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Once you get to a substantive compliance analysis for "cruel, inhuman, and degrading" you get the position that the substantive standard is the same as it is in analogous U.S. constitutional law. Shock the Conscience
I found the violent slapstick humour cruel and unfunny.
To modern eyes, such doctrines appear harsh, even cruel.
he has no conscience about his cruelty
He had by a second will bequeathed all his possessions to the Church, reserving in them a life-interest for his virtual wife; and when the cousinry swooped down on what they thought their prey, Madame Mulhausen could receive them and their condolences with the indignant scorn which their greed and cruelty deserved. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
No, they would not let themselves fall under some cruel tyrannical usurper.
During the long, cruel month of February, waiting for my delinquent digestive system to kick in, I had contracted low-grade pneumonia.
What kind of cruel irony embedded this peace directive in the very source of my discontent? Christianity Today
It is so relentlessly "sick", its unleashed cruelty so sadistic (the climax is a graphic clitorectomy) that the audience at the premiere booed and hissed. Karin Badt: Cannes Buzz: Which Film Will Win?
Above all, he turned the wanton cruelty of the natural world into clothes of exquisite beauty, season after season. Times, Sunday Times
The long cruel winter came to an end at last, yielding to a gentle warm spring.
Biscay, or off the storm-lashed rocks of Finisterre, we set down the author in question as a gross impostor, and had a mind to quarrel with him for leading us into this cruel error. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Russie is pursued by cruel foe, He rides away, and suddenly betakes him to his boe, And bends me but about in saddle as be sits, And therewithall amids his race his following foe he hits. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
They were the victims of a cruel hoax.
His condemnation is reserved for cruelty to animals. The Times Literary Supplement
Rich: Yes, if he's cruel, the upside is that he's unsentimental, which is refreshing. Houses Collide: Game of Thrones Discussion — All's Well That Ends With Dragons
But, in a somewhat cruel twist of fate, you will also not remember to go out and buy it.
Midway through the second half a kick which might have won the game was cruelly whipped to the left of the upright, having spent most of its trajectory arrowing right between them.
Not surprisingly the nine-year-old is subjected to cruel taunts at school because of her weight. The Sun
Some of the early colonists were cruel to the native population.
It was cruel luck for the tourists, who could have done with wrapping up the innings quickly in a match they must win to square the series.
Some prison facilities… are notorious for the cruel and prolonged acts of torture inflicted upon political opponents of the Government.
All of which suggests that, just as either the overripeness or the rawness of what you serve can speak to your cultivation, to your acquired level of artistry, so cruelty can exhibit your refinement. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
Simon Callow's fine Sir Toby is also a genuine rural blueblood whose highest praise for Maria is that "she is a beagle, true bred", yet who is also capable of insensate cruelty. Twelfth Night - review | Theatre | Michael Billington
That which medicine can't explain we tend to label psychosomatic and blame the patient, a cruel phenomenon all too familiar to those who've had MS, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, and a myriad of other ailments in decades past. John Falk: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Psychotherapy
Her little flirtation in Rome seemed inconsequential by comparison with the schedule of cruelties she had dealt out. THE CALLIGRAPHER
I've heard higher flights of oratory, funnier jokes, crueller gibes at opponents, cannier attempts to win applause. Times, Sunday Times
My sense of proportion left me; my judgment took on the grotesque exaggerations of a cruel cartoon.
The thing is reduced to a cruel mockery when stores and granaries are over-gorged, while people clamor in vain for clothing and food, and drop dead within reach of these prime elements of warmth and sustentation. Black and White
How heartening it is in these cruel and trite times to know that real talent may still receive its just reward.
There is much casual cruelty in this book. The Times Literary Supplement
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Margaret Mead
But fear not, we will be shafting them behind their backs by imposing a cruel financial duty on their well-priced and interesting wines.
It radiates a Goth passion, a combination of lust and cruelness: the metal rounded quarter of an egg shaped, lead-hued metal in contrast to the blood-red transparent glass within which beats the cold-heart of a contemporary vixen. Archive 2009-02-01
This is the cruel, inhuman side to modelling that so many claim doesn't exist. The Sun
We must stop setting them a bad example by following policies that are unnecessary, and cruel.
The man Christ's voluntary and most innocent, most shameful, and most cruel death on the Cross was the deletion and purgation of, and the satisfaction for, all the carnal desires of human nature.
The whole episode had been a cruel deception.
A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder.
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. The Outcast
Being cruel, guileful and unscrupulous, the terrorist committed all manners of crimes including murder and arson.
Besides all that we once committed ourselves by writing on the subject, we have done many other cruel things; such as dividing insects, (whether at the union of the head with corselet, or of the corselet with the abdomen,) and we have found that the segments to which the members were articulated carried on their functions _without the head_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
In public calamites, when a general drought appears, and cruel wars, or contagious maladies come, we humble ourselves before the power that sent them, and mortify ourselves by abstinence. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
He's not nasty, cruel or bent on taking over the world.
The cruelty perpetrated on the family must cease immediately.
Once when he was young and felt that life was too cruel to suffer, he had thought of the freedom of death.
'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. ' Gladys, the Reaper
The Italian has been one of the best keepers in English football for quite a while now and it would be cruel if he were to spend the majority of this season on the bench.
Compared with the towns of the north, Rheims is relatively unharmed; but for that very reason the arrest of life seems the more futile and cruel. Fighting France
It was a cruel drawback to her hopes to see him first thus in public: but the manner of Mrs. Arlbery at the hotel, he had thought repulsive; he had observed that she seemed offended with him since the rencounter at the breakfast given for Miss Dennel; and he now wished for some encouragement for renewing his rights to the acquaintance. Camilla
Strong cruel brutes, they did not swither a moment, but both leaped at M'Iver's throat. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
She is certain that cruelty could never be apprehended from the Gentleman to whom this is addressed; and the poor animal would have suffered more as the victim of domestic economy, than of philosophical curiosity. Poems
How brutal and cruel are the gluttons who eat them!
The new law explicitly states that people should not be subject to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
We now know that some families were cruel to children and that many children were abused without anyone stepping in to stop it.
Life is cruel, she thought, with a sudden rush of anger.
I personally do not get any pleasure from seeing people locked up for a long time, but these people were cruel and vindictive. Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't make for a moving spectacle - it is too cruel and joyless - but there is no denying the sense of awe which accompanies this rare parade of its talents.
Asiatic cholera had its origin in English avarice and cruelty, as they suppose who trace it to the tax which Warren Hastings, when Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Some cards include cruel jokes about people suffering despair. The Sun
It turned out that 33,000 fans thought he was the Cubs' first batgirl, but - with the exception of one cruel future Cy Young winner - all the players told him stories in the dugout about when they had had long hair.
The cold snap is a cruel blow for all those flowers that came into bloom out of season earlier this winter. Times, Sunday Times
She couldn't bear to see animals treated cruelly.
There is one fact which no one can misunderstand, the while -- that after the defections under which you have suffered, and under your known want of military stores, an incursive war from the mountains appears ferocious -- both revengeful and cruel -- when every one knows that time will render it unnecessary. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
He wept inside for the pain that she was feeling, for having just found her father and to have him taken so cruelly from her was something that was nearly unendurable.
For person and complexion they haue broade and flatte visages, of a tanned colour into yellowe and blacke, fierce and cruell lookes, thinne haired vpon the upper lippe, and pitte of the chinne, light and nimble bodied, with short legges, as if they were made naturally for horsemen: whereto they practise themselues from their childhood, seldome going afoot about anie businesse. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Senators, matrons, and philosophers, expired in ignominious and cruel tortures. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
But the cruelty came down from above, loud and clear, and try as she might she couldn't keep the anger from burgeoning in her. EVERVILLE
It was really too cruel and not handleable when it all stopped in one day, and she was back in her kitchen in Brookline and the phone wasn't ringing and there was no schedule and no staff and no Secret Service. What it Takes: The Way to the White House
His range of no-nonsense products helps to do just that, with ethically sourced, cruelty-free, 100 per cent vegan ingredients. Times, Sunday Times
There is a cruel irony for cancer care in this country. Times, Sunday Times
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Still, the reality she faces is neither too harsh, nor too cruel.
The western community rose up to protest the cruel and inhumane punishment.
I believe that there is no way he can protect his family from the cruelty of the scorn and ridicule of those who will inevitably tell them in no incertain terms that they believe Mr. Schiavo is a murderer. Yet another new Terri Schiavo thread
Now, it's probably a bad idea most of the time for guards to slug inmates - although I can think of lots of exceptions - but it isn't cruel and unusual punishment.
The Party is dead and working class people have been cruelly disenfranchised.
This is the cruel reality of what passes for an " international community " and the comity of nations…
A city court today sentenced an executive of a private company and his parents to life imprisonment for causing the death of his wife after subjecting her to extreme cruelty due to dowry demands.
In Crown & Country he provides the reader with enough intellectual rigour to impart context, before livening the page with pithy tales of treachery or cruelty, of double-dealing or disaster. Crown & Country by David Starkey - review
The questioning of my wife was particularly cruel and inhuman, resulting in her collapse after leaving the stand. The Sun
The distorted semblances of the trees on the other side were vaguely visible through it, mocking him cruelly in the emptiness.
Perceval departed from the castle, and gave thanks to Our Lord and praise, that He hath allowed him to conquer a castle so cruel and to attorn it to the Law. The High History of the Holy Graal
She had lit a host of candles around her, as though their light might ameliorate the cruelty of the hour. SACRAMENT
The collection of deer antler velvet is reportedly quite cruel by western standards.
Szentkuthy stood as a beacon in this darkness of misery and cruelty.
His films generally concern the cruel power of obsessional love and the need for sensual pleasure.
He never once complained or bemoaned the cruel hand life dealt him.
No rationalization that human beings give for their cruelty or neglect is ever meaningful to him.
She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat. The Call of the North
Such cruelties though I abhorred very much in my heart, yet here was I forced to hold my tongue and contradict them not, as having not authority to oversway them. Bucaniers of America:
Mexico, how identical in shape and size with the protuberance of Africa just opposite, and how the protuberance of the Venezuelan and Brazilian coast fits in with the in-curve of Africa: so that it is obvious to me -- it is quite _obvious_ -- that they once were one; and one night rushed so far apart; and the wild Atlantic knew that thing, and ran gladly, hasting in between: and how if eye of flesh had been there to see, and ear to hear that cruel thundering, my God, my God -- what horror! The Purple Cloud
I have always believed in an element of good that is intrinsic to even the most cruel of people.
The cruel master beat his slaves mercilessly with a whip.
An unknowable, harsh and cruel society had destroyed his father for no apparent reason.
Don't blame yourself but be glad this cruel and abusive man is now out of your life. The Sun
I know how cruel this game can be and I never doubted that everyone would give of his best and that is as much as we can expect.
Once again we are invited to pick with hawk-eyed dispassion through the secrets of a rich, cruel family. Times, Sunday Times
One'cruel' man put a padlock on her fridge. The Sun
And found there the blessed Denis preaching, and made him cruelly to be beaten, bespit and despised, and fast to be bounden with Rusticus and Eleutherius, and to be brought tofore him: And when he saw that the saints were constant and firm in the acknowledging of our Lord, he was much heavy and sorrowful. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
It's a cruel twist of fate that, when you've taken the trouble to wear fancy pants, you're bound to wind up the night alone making cheese on toast and chipping limescale off the toilet bowl.
Were it not cruel in these circumstances, here might be the place to insert an observation, gleaned long ago from the great _Clothes-Volume_, where it stands with quite other intent: 'Some time before Small-pox was extirpated,' says the Professor, 'there came a new malady of the spiritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
His cruel and callous comments made me shiver.
The cruel master beat his slaves mercilessly with a whip.
Don't tease him about his weight - it's cruel.
No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
Political life is cruel to families. Times, Sunday Times
He piles his life high with complexities and in place of life being for necessities, and they few and simple, it is largely for comforts which we call necessities, and Professor Huxley has said that the struggle for comforts is more cruel than the struggle for existence. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
She was a cruel and vicious woman, and did not hesitate to inflict pain upon her inferiors, be they slaves, servants, or her own flesh and blood.
Now, I had to figure out what to do with my evil, cruel, untameable, bird's nest black hair.
Ellen MacArthur's bid to circumnavigate the globe in record time received a cruel setback when her mast was damaged.
Every light inside the ship burst on at full intensity, the bright glare cruelly lighting the snow and lowering skies.
The pig whisperer: Author Jeffrey Masson explores the emotions of - and cruelty inflicted upon - the most unglamorous animals
Their humor was either cruel or crude, and never self-deprecating, which is the true test - if you can't make fun of yourself, you sure as hell can't make fun of someone else. February 2004
Knight, somewhat blamably, keenly enjoyed sparring with the palpitating mobile creature, whose excitable nature made any such thing a species of cruelty. A Pair of Blue Eyes
It's heartless, cruel and just not on. The Sun
Children are far from immune to the virus of cruelty that is latent in all human beings.
But my simple shunning of her had given the lesser folk of the keep permission to be cruel and callous to her. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The torture of the boot was considered by contemporary observers to be the ‘most severe and cruel pain in the world’.
The practice of infanticide, for selfish reasons, was, as we shall see in later chapters, horribly prevalent among many of the lower races, and even where the young were tenderly reared, the feeling toward them was hardly what we call affection -- a conscious, enduring devotion -- but a sort of animal instinct which is shared by tigers and other fierce and cruel animals, and which endures but a short time. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness {sic}, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl. Fanny Herself
He wrote it after a stupendously argumentative and productive life as a scholar and writer and as that cruel disease, ALS, was closing in upon him. Twelve Months of Reading
If we act fast, we can once and for all prevent wild animals in Britain from suffering terrible cruelty.
My feeling for him undergo a revulsion when I discover his cruelty.
He also accused the regulator of failing in its duty after learning of new examples of'cruel' and unsafe operations in clinics he had previously reported. Times, Sunday Times
Hunting with dogs is a cruel, barbaric and unnecessary pastime.
They chattered politely for a few minutes, and then Will cruelly suggested that Clara entertain them on the pianoforte.
he treated his students cruelly
He did not join in the sports of other boys, and he was even made the victim of cruel practical jokes by some schoolfellows.
Losing right at the death was a cruel blow. The Sun
Those who said he should serve longer for his part in the killing were brushed aside and accused of being harsh and cruel. The Sun
Along with the warm sunshine, the cruel headwinds of Bank Holiday Monday subsided to a light breeze.
We do not read in history of any act of cruelty practiced towards a male bewitcher; though we have authentic records to prove, that many a weak and defenceless woman has been tortured, and even murdered by a people professing Christianity, merely because a pampered priest, or a superstitious idiot, sanctioned such oppression. Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
The fact Pears could be ruled out of the crunch game at Molineux is a cruel blow after his superb season.
This is a cruel practice which should be banned immediately.
Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.
One year ago, and Uncle Nat would have started with delight at the mention of a place so fraught with remembrances of _Dora_, but Eugenia's last cruel letter had chilled his love, and now, when he thought of Dora, it was as one incapable of either affection or gratitude. Dora Deane
At length juftice triumphed, the caftle was forced, and a cruel flaughter enfued. The Jockey Club; Or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age. Part the Third
Many early child-rearing practices were cruel by modern standards .
They became "invincible" - natural-born jungle - and night-fighters, as well as "utterly ruthless, utterly cruel and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization. MotherJones.com
The sentencing judge noted "a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, and callousness."
He pleaded not guilty to cruelty and claimed he had entrusted the puppies to a man called Phil.
But, star-crossed lovers as we are, fate has cruelly intervened and given us tickets for different days.
It was a gradual understanding of the sheer wrongness of my actions by my participation in such a cruel, barbaric industry.
Cady begins to be chuffed by her new status; she grows to like obsessing about food, looks and weight and is secretly thrilled by her licence to be bitchy and cruel.
By a cruel irony, it was the sixth anniversary of their engagement.
But this continuall cruell ciuill warre, the which my selfe against my selfe doe make: whilest my weak powres of passions warreid arre. no skill can stint nor reason can aslake. Amoretti and Epithalamion

How To Use Cruel In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):