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cruelness

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

残酷性,残忍性,残忍,残酷

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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

  • That might sound a little cruel, but given his behavior, it’s his just rewards, But on the other hand, I think that it might work to his favor.

  • The Eighth Amendment forbids “cruel and unusual punishments,” and the Supreme Court has held that this amendment prohibits states from imposing certain punishments on certain individuals.

  • Beyond these two especially high-profile cases, this term gives the Court an opportunity to reshape the law governing cruel and unusual punishments — and to potentially weaken existing safeguards against such punishments considerably.

  • A clinician who had grown up in the town reached out to Anna Mueller for help breaking the cruel cycle.

  • That's the cruel way someone anonymously replied to a family asking for help for their sick child.

  • His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf.

  • Not to those in power, not to the cruel and inhumane, not to the wealthy.

  • Hatuey replied that he would rather burn and be sent to hell than ever again encounter people as cruel as the Spanish.

  • The New Jersey governor vetoed a ban on a rarely used cruel practice for pregnant pigs.

  • The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy.

  • And then Jolly Robin would feel ashamed that he had even thought of being so cruel to an infant bird, even if he was a Cowbird.

  • Through what ages has that declaration, not to be denied, ascended to cold and cruel skies?

  • His silence had frightened her: what if he should resent on her the cruel words spoken by Dr. Ashton?

  • There had been cruel misunderstanding on his part somewhere; that misunderstanding must be burned away.

  • In a thousand trials the cruel witness of Moses has sent innocent women to a painful death.