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How to use cruel in a sentence

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The scenes of appalling neglect we witnessed in these sheds were abhorrently cruel.
This was a sparkling show, saucy in its depictions perhaps but rarely intentionally cruel.
A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder.
Outside, the plane trees along the street have the same sameness about them, pollarded in a way I used to think cruel.
Her would-be husband had a reputation among the men as a quietly authoritative man, a demanding but not cruel commander.
Most Austrians and many other Europeans abhor capital punishment as cruel and inhumane.
But his live show is much more casually cruel, and no matter how sensitive a subject, nothing is taboo for his one-liners.
During the long, cruel month of February, waiting for my delinquent digestive system to kick in, I had contracted low-grade pneumonia.
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
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.
I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
Leave them as part of a cruel, evil, shadowed time, which must be put behind us.
I'm not taking this stand because I'm cruel, cerise, but because I'm desperate.
If he had been guilty, what was that to the cruel world so ready to punish, so ready to do worse!
The cruel Bashkir was affected by the same misery, and manifested the same symptoms of his misery, as the wretched Kalmuck.
We could not sympathise with those who are guilty of the massacre of Sinope, and we believe that this cruel war was unnecessary.
Would you have Crane get out on the housetop an' shout to you to go an' cruel Porter's mare?
It is a cruel, strong and dangerous beast, but not so courageous as the Bengal tiger.
If you want to and if I want you to, it shows that you are cruel and I conscienceless.
But, if the prisoner is an atavist it is his nature to be furious and cruel.
I didn't know there was any one living who could be so cruel, so cold, so diabolical.
The cruel and unnecessary methods employed by those untrained for diagnostics, cannot be too vigorously condemned.
He was never the cause of unnecessary bloodshed, nor the contriver of any act of cruel revenge.
Quick as the heat lightning that flutters on the waters of Winipigoos in the hot summers the cruel club came down.
Now, Dionysius was as conceited as he was cruel, and fancied that there was nothing he could not do.
A cruel retaliation was taken by Calleja upon the inhabitants of Guanajuato.
Men do not mean to be cruel to horses when bitting them improperly, but they are so neverthelessto a terrible degree.
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