cruelty

Example Sentences

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Viewers accused the show of cruelty and humiliating Tran by making her relive her trauma on live television.

From Los Angeles Times

This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was like “The Truman Show” mixed with “Twelve Angry Men,” or a segment of “Candid Camera” stretched into a series, or Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal,” minus the neuroses and cruelty.

From Los Angeles Times

“Who are you? Why are you doing this?”—as though cruelty and callousness were the norm, ordinary decency the marvel.

From Literature

It was not only the mockery in their faces and the cruelty of their words that I hated so much, it was the injustice.

From Literature