cruelty

Example Sentences

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“People accused of serious animal cruelty should not be allowed to keep control of abused animals while a case slowly moves through the court system.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026

"It's absolutely horrific, a real unique form of cruelty to hold something like this over somebody's head," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

Those years gave me an early and ugly lesson in mob mentality and collective cruelty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

"It's the gift we give to an audience, it's just to ruminate on that very serious subject, antisemitism, cruelty of all kinds, hatred of the other," Lithgow said.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

For the reasons discussed above, it came about that, of Marcus, Pertinax, and Alexander—who all lived decent lives, were lovers of justice, enemies of cruelty, humane, and kindly—all except Marcus came to a bad end.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli