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cruelty
[ kroo-uhl-tee ]
noun
- the state or quality of being cruel.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
- cruel disposition or conduct.
Antonyms:
- a cruel act.
Antonyms:
- Law. conduct by a spouse that causes grievous bodily harm or mental suffering.
cruelty
/ ˈ°ì°ù³ÜËÉ™±ô³Ùɪ /
noun
- deliberate infliction of pain or suffering
- the quality or characteristic of being cruel
- a cruel action
- law conduct that causes danger to life or limb or a threat to bodily or mental health, on proof of which a decree of divorce may be granted
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²¹²Ôt¾±Â·³¦°ù³Üıô·³Ù²â adjective
- ²õ±ð±ô´Ú-³¦°ù³Üıô·³Ù²â noun plural selfcruelties
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
His wife Amanda, 36, was found guilty of causing/allowing a child to suffer physical harm and cruelty to a child.
It detailed despicable acts of cruelty and ultimately concluded that such techniques, decreed to be legal by the Department of Justice, were “not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees.â€
Warning: This story contains descriptions of animal cruelty some readers may find distressing.
Ridley is, naturally, disgusted by the animal cruelty, which puts a handful of the Leopolds’ on-call scientists to work in a lab.
What holds it together is looking so terrible as to be, as Gareth Watkins described in the New Socialist, "a small act of cruelty" towards anyone who gazes upon the man.
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