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."