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How to use Cruel in a sentence

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Cruel physical punishments degrade the punishers as well as the punished.
Our sabs and the League Against Cruel Sports will be monitoring the hunt and will be able to produce evidence if the killing was a deliberate act.
Cruel and tyrannical, he consciously sought to make himself a despot.
Cruel and heartless as it sounds, I don't do anything about this date.
I was a subscriber to the League Against Cruel Sports but I am not now.
While in New York, Baker read the novel The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.
In its submission to the Burns Inquiry, the League Against Cruel Sports presented evidence of over 1,000 cases of trespass by hunts.
Alongside new versions of songs from the album, you'll find fan favourites Whipping Boy and Welcome To The Cruel World, which are worth the price of admission alone.
I approach her, intent to help this poor girl and show her the sort of loving kindness that this cruel post-apocalyptic world had not shown her.
His character is so vile and cruel that he seems to have lost his soul somewhere in the jungles of Peru.
I do not see how you gain by adding to his family's pain with your vile insults and cruel words.
For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch.
It is a cruel world, I suppose, but everything we do requires facing that danger and calculating the risk.
Women's faces surrounded her, some lined, some smooth, some cruel, some kind, but none familiar.
Agathocles, we are told, always lived a dissolute life and was known for appallingly cruel and inhumane conduct.
She made the mistake of looking up to make a cruel statement when Nicolette saw her face and lit in to her more.
Along the way, Spira learned that more than 100 years of antivivisectionism hadn't ever stopped a cruel experiment.
Significantly, however, the federal statute does not impose criminal liability for cruel, inhuman, or degrading acts.
The cruel method of hanging a condemned man should be replaced by more humane methods such as lethal injections.
It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Cruel Victoria Armstrong kept the black bunny, Snuggles, in the back garden of her home in Howdene Road, Denton Burn, Newcastle.
He saw a figure slowly arising to a sitting posture from the death bed of O-Mai the Cruel.
Cruel old man, know that I come with claims which even you cannot despise.
Af'rit or afreet, a kind of Medusa or Lamia, the most terrible and cruel of all the orders of the deevs.
The cruel sensations of Imogen were not aggravated by despair, but heightened by hope.
Simultaneously, the jockeys sat down to ridethere was the cruel swish of catgut, the crueler prodding of steel.
Men do not mean to be cruel to horses when bitting them improperly, but they are so neverthelessto a terrible degree.
But that does not justify his speech, which was both cruel and blasphemous.
A cruel and unreasonable battery' on a slave by the master or hirer is not indictable.
Quick as the heat lightning that flutters on the waters of Winipigoos in the hot summers the cruel club came down.
If he had been guilty, what was that to the cruel world so ready to punish, so ready to do worse!
But, if the prisoner is an atavist it is his nature to be furious and cruel.
A cruel retaliation was taken by Calleja upon the inhabitants of Guanajuato.
To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.
It was cruel that his extreme unhappiness should have in it something of buffoonery.
Sixty years ago there ruled in Bukhara a cruel Emir who took a delight in torturing human beings.
Would you have Crane get out on the housetop an' shout to you to go an' cruel Porter's mare?
I'm not taking this stand because I'm cruel, cerise, but because I'm desperate.
We could not sympathise with those who are guilty of the massacre of Sinope, and we believe that this cruel war was unnecessary.
I didn't know there was any one living who could be so cruel, so cold, so diabolical.
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