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.
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121) That was a cruel blow for Howard Wilkinson's team, who had made a committed, controlled and commanding start.
122) The rope-lights were tight-fitting, but they were not cruel; he could breathe easily and he could move.
123) The fact Pears could be ruled out of the crunch game at Molineux is a cruel blow after his superb season.
124) The cruel Sylvie, the Sylvie of the drinking and drug bouts.
125) An unknowable, harsh and cruel society had destroyed his father for no apparent reason.
126) It was abominable, atavistic and atrocious, big, black and brutal, cruel cold and callous, and so on.
127) Chapel and Sunday-school were to me cruel ceremonious punishments for the freedom of Monday to Saturday ....
128) Let me show you that all men aren't as cruel and immature as your retarded merchant banker.
129) Where members of staff are unkind or even cruel to children or even other staff swift disciplinary action needs to be taken.
130) Life is kind and generous to those who respect its principles and rules,[sentencedict.com/cruel.html] but is hard and cruel with those who demonstrate no respect for what is required for a good life. Dr T.P.Chia
131) Yet with their very first attack, the visitors struck a cruel blow.
132) What a cruel account is this of the Vicar's one and only love affair!
133) And the creatures of the Dark Ireland, Grainne, are soulless and cruel and evil beyond your comprehension.
134) The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it. George Santayana
135) People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
136) Yet, in a cruel paradox, it is the world's poorest countries that stand to suffer most from climate change.
137) He is unspeakably cruel.
138) But cruel Freudian aversion therapy proved incapable of changing it, and the fashion then changed to hormonal explanations.
139) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
140) This Shylock was a money-lender and a cruel man—everyone hated him.
141) As it was cruel to Eileen, who'd bled to death after the birth of her tiny baby.
142) If he was not horrible to look at, then he was cruel to forbid her ever to behold him.
143) Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
144) Once again the Saxons showed their spirit, and rose enmasse to avenge this cruel execution.
145) He wanted to give comfort, and protect her from the cruel blow life had dealt her.
146) The followers of Aenarion became ever more brutal, cruel and merciless, lost in a dream of endless slaughter.
147) Bamie brushed aside this cruel fate as if it were no more than a nuisance.
148) He was inexcusably cruel to his wife.
149) He had been angry and cruel, violent and unloving.
150) Her book portrays her stepfather as a cruel man.