Synonym: brutal, heartless, mean, ruthless. Antonym: humane, kind, pitiful. Similar words: accrue, fuel, obliquely, brusquely, TRUE, untrue, come true, construe. Meaning: ['krʊəl] 
adj. 1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering 2. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain.
adj. 1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering 2. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain. 
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61) She felt deeply wounded by his cruel remarks.
62) The defence lawyers claimed that the prisoners had been subjected to cruel and degrading treatment.
63) By a cruel irony, he died in a crash while returning home from the war.
64) The cruel king used to impale his prisoners on sharp sticks.
65) He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.
66) At last the people rose up in arms and defeated the cruel rulers.
67) Many early child-rearing practices were cruel by modern standards .
68) The whole nation was held down by the cruel rule of the king.
69) The former manager of the company repined against his cruel fate.
70) Single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted, because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
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71) Don't kick the cat out like that, it's cruel; lift it out gently.
72) We appear to have been the victims of a cruel practical joke.
73) The detainees are often held in cruel and inhuman conditions.
74) It seemed a cruel twist of fate that the composer should have died so young.
75) Her play was a biting/cruel satire on life in the 80s.
76) It is cruel to drown the cat in the river.
77) He was brought up by a cruel and tyrannical father.
78) The disappointment was cruel.
79) She was cruel to these children who were farmed out to her.
80) It's cruel the way she just dallies with his affections.
81) He believed that the universe was controlled by the whims of a cruel fate.
82) I had to be cruel to be kind and warn him that he'd lose his job if he didn't improve his performance.
83) This is a cruel practice which should be banned immediately.
84) But for a cruel twist of fate/fortune, he could now be running his own business.
85) He was cruel because he wanted to drive me away.
86) It was a cruel, calculated crime with absolutely no justification.
87) I can't restrain my anger when I hear of people being cruel to animals.
88) The cruel man took all the money and left his own grandmother high and dry.
89) He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.
90) He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.