cruel
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“During my year long journey, I have discovered how cruel, evil and greedy a human can be,” she wrote, seemingly alluding to the legal battle but not naming her daughter-in-law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“It is cruel and unacceptable, and it is past time for ICE to start following the law.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
It also makes much clearer how hard the homesteaders had to work, how desperate they had to be to go west at all, and how cruel and harsh the conditions were.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
It’s a cruel quirk of fate, or maybe just a tragic irony, that we are celebrating America’s semiquincentennial during one of the most surreal periods in American history.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Besides, he teased me at times, but he wasn’t cruel.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
Trump’s treatment of Cornyn was crueler than that of Cassidy.
From Slate ● May 30, 2026
I recognize, of course, that life isn’t fair and that many families are grappling with circumstances far crueler than ours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
Accepting mass culling or reverting to even crueler farming practices is not a solution.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
He’s never done anything crueler than return a library book past due.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
“I wasn’t mean, just...honest. Wouldn’t it be crueler to make him think there was some hope that I’d come around and just embrace all of this?”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
After his electoral defeat in 1912, Candice Millard writes in “The River of Doubt,” Roosevelt “sought to purge his disappointment by throwing himself headlong against the cruelest trials that nature could offer him.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
But at the same time, even under the cruelest dictatorships, it has still managed to produce fine literature.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Some Wall Street analysts are insisting that April — contrary to its label as the cruelest month — is actually one of the better months for the U.S. stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
If April is the cruelest month, per T.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
The cruelest, the proudest, the most superior and haughty.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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