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What does cruelty mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) An indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.
  2. (countable) A cruel act.
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On the concerto disc is also a choral work with a libretto devised to show the cruelty of man to beast and bird.
This is just a small amount of what cruelty actually happens, and this is only in Britain as well.
A pilot study by the police force and the SSPCA in 2000 identified for the first time clear links between animal cruelty and domestic abuse.
Read the postings without benefit of rebuttals and one is astonished at the level of casual cruelty and abusiveness visited on innocent youth.
No rationalization that human beings give for their cruelty or neglect is ever meaningful to him.
The last we heard of him was a piece in the newspaper describing a charge of cruelty to animals.

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