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cruelty

/kroo-uhl-tee/US // ˈkru əl ti //UK // (ˈkruːəltɪ) //

残酷性,残酷,残酷的,残酷的行为

Related Words

savagery野蛮,野蛮行为,野蛮人,野蛮生长torture酷刑,拷问,折磨,酷刑问题inhumanity非人道,非人道主义,非人道性,非人道行为malice恶意,恶感,恶性,恶习barbarity野蛮行为,野蛮,野蛮性,野蛮的行为persecution迫害,逼迫barbarism野蛮,野蛮行为,野蛮生长,野蛮人bestiality兽交,人兽交,兽性行为,兽性交配rancor恨意,怨恨,恨铁不成钢,仇恨despotism专制主义,专制制度,独裁主义,专制sadism虐待狂,虐待癖,虐待行为,虐待儿童wickedness邪恶,恶人,邪恶的人,邪恶的severity严重性,严重程度,严格,严厉程度spite怨恨,怨言,怨气,怨愤animality动物性,动物学fierceness烈性,猛烈,凶猛,激烈venom毒液,毒物,毒素,毒剂depravity堕落,堕落性,堕落的人,乱伦ferocity凶猛,凶猛程度,凶猛性,猛烈viciousness恶性,恶毒,凶恶,凶残

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cru·el·ties for 3.

    • : the state or quality of being cruel.
    • : cruel disposition or conduct.
    • : a cruel act.
    • : Law. conduct by a spouse that causes grievous bodily harm or mental suffering.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounbrutality, harshness
Synonyms
barbarism野蛮,野蛮行为,野蛮生长,野蛮人barbarity野蛮行为,野蛮,野蛮性,野蛮的行为inhumanity非人道,非人道主义,非人道性,非人道行为malice恶意,恶感,恶性,恶习persecution迫害,逼迫savagery野蛮,野蛮行为,野蛮人,野蛮生长torture酷刑,拷问,折磨,酷刑问题animality动物性,动物学bestiality兽交,人兽交,兽性行为,兽性交配bloodthirstiness嗜血成性,嗜血,嗜血性,嗜血症callousness无情,冷酷无情,无情的人,冷漠无情coarseness粗细程度,粗细度,粗细,粗度coldness寒冷,冷漠,寒冷度,冰冷depravity堕落,堕落性,堕落的人,乱伦despotism专制主义,专制制度,独裁主义,专制ferocity凶猛,凶猛程度,凶猛性,猛烈fierceness烈性,猛烈,凶猛,激烈heartlessness无情,无情无义,无情的,无情的人insensibility无感,无感性,无知觉,无知insensitiveness不敏感,不敏感度,不敏感性,麻木不仁malignity恶性,恶性事件,弊端,恶性肿瘤masochism受虐狂,受虐症,受虐癖,受虐倾向mercilessness无情,无情的,无良,无怜悯之心murderousness凶残,杀气,凶险,谋杀rancor恨意,怨恨,恨铁不成钢,仇恨ruthlessness无情,无情的,残酷无情,冷酷无情sadism虐待狂,虐待癖,虐待行为,虐待儿童savageness野生动物,野蛮生长,野蛮人,野生生物severity严重性,严重程度,严格,严厉程度spite怨恨,怨言,怨气,怨愤spitefulness怀恨在心,怨恨,怨气,刻薄寡恩truculence叛逆行为,欺骗性,叛逆,叛逆性unfeelingness无情,不情愿,无情无义,无感情unkindness无情,不仁不义,不友善,不仁venom毒液,毒物,毒素,毒剂viciousness恶性,恶毒,凶恶,凶残wickedness邪恶,恶人,邪恶的人,邪恶的brutishness残暴,粗暴,残暴性,野蛮fiendishness恶魔之心,恶魔般的存在,恶魔般地存在,恶魔般的存在hard-heartedness铁石心肠,铁石心肠的人,硬心肠,心硬

Examples

  • He didn’t want to see any more suffering, injustice and cruelty.

  • Faced with the cruelty of slavery, those who had escaped it began seeking support abroad.

  • I guess I just felt like I was worth something, like all the pain and cruelty wasn’t what was real.

  • Mistreatment ranged, much as it did in the United States, from individual acts of cruelty to systemic oppression.

  • Plus, for each journal purchased a percentage of the profit is donated to a non-profit organization in Zambia that promotes the prevention of child cruelty.

  • Another American officer, Capt. Edwin Glenn, was convicted of cruelty in a non-fatal turn-of-the-century case in the Philippines.

  • Except in cases with the highest body count, or the most grotesque cruelty, white victims were the only ones that mattered.

  • So, in the midst of all this chaos and cruelty to one another, what difference does having faith make?

  • He also had a reputation for cruelty in a particularly cruel conflict.

  • Mindless bureaucratic cruelty is a recurring theme of observers of the modern state.

  • Her pulse was beneath his fingers, and with every stroke of it he felt more keenly the mystery and cruelty of life.

  • Say that my anger has no bounds—that my heart is breaking—will break and kill me, if he persists in his ingratitude and cruelty.

  • I could find in the Bible more instances of Jahweh's cruelty and barbarity and lack of mercy than I can find room for.

  • He loathed himself for submitting to her cruelty, for it was intentional cruelty—she made him writhe and suffer of set purpose.

  • The cruelty hidden in the beautiful lines of his mouth took instant prominence in the smile that flickered round it.

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