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cruelty
noun as in brutality, harshness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- animality
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fierceness
- heartlessness
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- truculence
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Families of residents accused Castlehill's owners of "cruelty" and "neglect" after a BBC Disclosure investigation revealed a series of care failures.
Social media companies say they do not allow animal abuse, cruelty, neglect, or other forms of animal exploitation and remove content that causes distress or harm to animals.
Jobless inertia and financial strife breed a cruelty that isn’t dissimilar from the cold strike of an employer maintaining their bottom line, cutting 100 workers with the same callousness that they’d cut 1,000.
“The biggest difference between previous administrations and the current one is anger and cruelty,” he said.
Tyrese Gibson faces one charge of cruelty to animals stemming from a September incident in Fulton County, Ga., that left a neighbor’s 5-year-old dog mauled and dead.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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