cruel
[ˈkruːəl]
Definition:
1. Having a desire to cause pain and suffering.
2. Causing pain or suffering.
3. Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy.
Use 'cruel' in a sentence:
- 1. The detainees are often held in cruel and inhuman conditions.
- 2. People often think of gossipers as harmless, but cruel lies can cause pain.
- 3. He was self-centred, but he wasn't cruel.
- 4. The father is neither kind nor cruel to his son.
- 5. After a cruel tongue lashing, he threw the girl out of the group.
- 6. No animal escapes the cruel knife in the end.
- 7. The loss of the first game was a cruel blow for them.
- 8. It's extremely cruel to perform an experiment on live animals.
- 9. He did not think he was any more cruel, any more vengeful than other men.
- 10. Although a man of blood and violence, Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous or habitually cruel.
- 11. They were the victims of a cruel hoax.
- 12. Their cruel treatment of animals was abominable.
- 13. This is not only cruel, but also harmful to the environment.
- 14. Geppetto, no doubt, will beat him unmercifully, he is so mean and cruel!
- 15. These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners bending their legs.
- 16. Her eyes were cruel and hard.
- 17. No doubt I'm biased, but it was the most cruel, evil human face I ever set eyes on.
- 18. As a zoology professor, I agree with Emma Marris that zoo displays can be sad and cruel.
- 19. In a cruel twist of fate, Ann's husband Bill is also suffering from the disease.
- 20. It saddened her that people could be so cruel.
- 21. You may scoff but I honestly feel I'm being cruel only to be kind.
- 22. You've been the victim of a rather cruel deception.
- 23. This is a little cruel, but there you go.
- 24. Parents are sometimes cruel to their children.
- 25. It was a shameful thing and a cruel!
- 26. Marion's father counter-attacked by saying that Blaze's claims were cruel and untrue.
- 27. The whole episode had been a cruel deception.
- 28. I had made him know that I felt he was cruel and I had done it without his punishing me.
- 29. By a cruel irony, his horse came down on a flat part of the course.
- 30. Their cruel remarks stung her into action.
- 31. His cruel father nearly beat him to death.
- 32. The defence lawyers claimed that the prisoners had been subjected to cruel and degrading treatment.
- 33. She felt deeply wounded by his cruel remarks.
- 34. Our poor lost boy restored to our arms after all these cruel years!
- 35. These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners from bending their legs.
- 36. He was a cruel and vicious man.
- 37. No, no, they would not be so cruel!
- 38. The wind was not as sharp and cruel as it had been.
- 39. Don't you think it's cruel to cage a creature up?
- 40. He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.
- 41. It is cruel to keep animals in confined spaces.
- 42. So cruel is the man that he never shows any mercy to whoever is against his opinion.
- 43. It is plainly cruel to keep turtles as pets.
- 44. "There," cried the sparrow, "thou cruel villain, thou hast killed my friend the dog."
- 45. Children can be so cruel.
- 46. I can't stand people who are cruel to animals.
- 47. Animal rights advocates argue that zoos are really animal prisons and very often cruel.
- 48. He used a phrase I hate: 'You have to be cruel to be kind.'
- 49. He used a phrase I hate: "You have to be cruel to be kind."