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What is the adjective for cruels?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb cruel which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

cruel
  1. Not nice; mean; heartless.
  2. (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Commodus was a cruel emperor who sought to inflict pain and torture on Maximus through devilish means.”
      “Jeremy's injury is a cruel blow to himself and to his team who rely on him.”
      “They reached the top of the mountain despite the cruel conditions and climate.”
crueler
  1. comparative form of cruel: more cruel
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Zhu Ke, the writer, said the substitution of the lash for crueler corporal punishments revealed a forward movement of civilization.”
      “To say categorically that it is crueler to put any cat to sleep rather than send it outdoors is a rash overgeneralization.”
      “Certainly, the demand for harsher and crueler treatment suggests we're moving back to an era of disrespect.”
crueller
  1. comparative form of cruel: more cruel
  2. Examples:
    1. “It would have been crueller to people to have dragged this process out by giving false hope, he said.”
      “When Morgan lifts his glasses to wipe the rheum from his eyes it seems there is nothing crueller than ageing.”
      “Then she told us of new crueller devices intended against the Friends, and, indeed, against all nonconforming folks.”
cruelest
  1. superlative form of cruel: most cruel
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The scene drives home as nothing else the ugly ironies that make civil wars the cruelest.”
      “I've railed against the RIAA and MPAA and their congressional sock puppets in some of the cruelest language I've ever used in print.”
      “The plantocracy, who controlled the judiciary, had since the founding of the colony mandated the cruelest punishments for resistance.”
cruellest
  1. superlative form of cruel: most cruel
  2. Examples:
    1. “Remarkably, he found the right words to comfort those affected by the cruellest twist of fate.”
      “I think that this represents mislabelling of the cruellest sort to patients and which is not supported by any scientific or clinical data.”
      “This kind of freedom may coincide with the cruellest despotism and with the subjugation of the overwhelming majority of the people.”
cruelled
cruelling
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