Thesaurus / cruelty
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
He didn’t want to see any more suffering, injustice and cruelty.
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Faced with the cruelty of slavery, those who had escaped it began seeking support abroad.
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I guess I just felt like I was worth something, like all the pain and cruelty wasn’t what was real.
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Mistreatment ranged, much as it did in the United States, from individual acts of cruelty to systemic oppression.
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Plus, for each journal purchased a percentage of the profit is donated to a non-profit organization in Zambia that promotes the prevention of child cruelty.
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Her pulse was beneath his fingers, and with every stroke of it he felt more keenly the mystery and cruelty of life.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
Say that my anger has no bounds—that my heart is breaking—will break and kill me, if he persists in his ingratitude and cruelty.
I could find in the Bible more instances of Jahweh's cruelty and barbarity and lack of mercy than I can find room for.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
He loathed himself for submitting to her cruelty, for it was intentional cruelty—she made him writhe and suffer of set purpose.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The cruelty hidden in the beautiful lines of his mouth took instant prominence in the smile that flickered round it.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
WORDS RELATED TO CRUELTY
- abuse
- affection
- affliction
- ailment
- badness
- complaint
- condition
- cruelty
- damage
- depravity
- destruction
- disease
- disorder
- evil
- harm
- hurt
- illness
- indisposition
- infirmity
- injury
- insult
- malady
- malaise
- malice
- mischief
- misery
- pain
- sickness
- suffering
- syndrome
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unpleasantness
- wickedness
- woe
- wrong
- abuse
- affection
- affliction
- ailment
- badness
- complaint
- condition
- cruelty
- damage
- depravity
- destruction
- disease
- disorder
- evil
- harm
- hurt
- illness
- indisposition
- infirmity
- injury
- insult
- malady
- malaise
- malice
- mischief
- misery
- pain
- sickness
- suffering
- syndrome
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unpleasantness
- wickedness
- woe
- wrong
- abuse
- abusiveness
- autocracy
- brutality
- calamity
- coercion
- compulsion
- conquering
- control
- cruelty
- despotism
- dictatorship
- domination
- fascism
- force
- forcibleness
- hardness
- harshness
- injury
- injustice
- iron hand
- maltreatment
- martial law
- overthrowing
- persecution
- severity
- subduing
- subjection
- suffering
- torment
- tyrrany
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