cruelness 的定义
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.
cruelness 近义词
等同于 ferociousness
等同于 fierceness
更多cruelness例句
- 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.