cruelly

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hard

adverb. with great force

in cold blood

adverb. in an unemotional manner

monstrously

adverb. horribly

scandalously

adverb. shamefully

scathingly

adverb. viciously

shamefully

adverb. disgracefully

unjustly

adverb. unfairly

Word Origin & History

early 13c., from Old French cruel (12c.), earlier crudel, from Latin crudelis "rude, unfeeling; cruel, hard-hearted," related to crudus "rough, raw, bloody" (see crude). Related: Cruelly.

Example Sentences for cruelly

They might only be cruelly holding out hope to one of the doomed.

The latter was cruelly polite and attentive in his demeanour.

They have begun so cruelly with me, that I have not spirit enough to assert my own negative.

How could I fear to die after he was taken away from me so cruelly!

I have no wish to comment upon that past with which you reproach me so cruelly.

Theodora was cruelly alive to the helplessness of her situation.

Yet of this, my only remaining comfort, I was treacherously and cruelly deprived.

It was a cruel letter, but in my pain I could not see that it had not been cruelly intended.

Deeply, however, did she err, and cruelly was she destined to be undeceived.

She dreamt that the snow-laden sky was falling on her, so cruelly did the cold pinch.

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in cold blood

monstrously

scandalously

scathingly

shamefully

unjustly

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