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cruelly

/kroo-uhl/US // ˈkru əl //UK // (ˈkruːəl) //

残忍地,残酷地,残酷,残忍

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    cru·el·er, cru·el·est.

    • : willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
    • : enjoying the pain or distress of others: the cruel spectators of the gladiatorial contests.
    • : causing or marked by great pain or distress: a cruel remark; a cruel affliction.
    • : rigid; stern; strict; unrelentingly severe.

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Examples

  • I think that kids are cruel and their cruelty sort of grows in scope and scale as their hormones start to shift.

  • It’s a cruel irony that the things that make a restaurant appealing are precisely what currently make it dangerous—the intimacy, the coziness, the groups of people deep in conversation, whiling away the hours over drinks and a meal.

  • The President said things about your late husband that were cruel.

  • Italy without its beloved calcetto—pickup soccer game—would have seemed a cruel and unusual punishment not long ago.

  • What’s most cruel to me about this is that we have a program we could update and help fix this, but we keep looking the other way.

  • Instead, he is cruelly jailed solely for the peaceful expression of his beliefs.

  • I just went missing without a trace,” one man writes, “I just disappeared cruelly from their lives.

  • But many of the nuns themselves were kind and not all the girls in their care were treated cruelly.

  • When she wore a black-and-white striped dress, the Internet cruelly compared her to a Killer Whale.

  • The sunset was cruelly beautiful and as dusk deepened the Christmas lights on the firehouse grew grimly brighter.

  • He didn't want my father to marry my mother, and if he found us he would treat us cruelly.

  • The ministers who advised this step, acted cruelly towards the government they left behind.

  • Accordingly, the record of this hard-fighting soldier of the Empire has been cruelly buried in ridicule.

  • Bascomb spurred his tired horse cruelly, and they got past Hot Springs at a fairly good gait.

  • He is a Confederate soldier who was cruelly wounded at Pea Ridge, and found his way here.