cruel

Example Sentences

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Someone in this room was playing a cruel trick.

From Literature

Art—crude or cruel, adolescent or arch—is supposed to make comprehensible the incomprehensible.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a stressful, often cruel environment, it felt less like a performance, and more like a merry rebuke.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Forcing individuals who are working and living in the United States legally out of their jobs is not only cruel, but it is bad policy,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

“To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel.”

From Los Angeles Times