cruel

in a cruel predicament

the victim of a cruel hoax.

He is cruel to animals.

cruel and inhuman behavior.

the girl had a cruel face.

cruel or degrading treatment.

Tigers are cruel by nature.

It is cruel to drown the cat in the river.

a savage attack on a political rival.See Synonyms at cruel

That crueled the experiment.

Fate dealt him a cruel blow.

Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.

It's cruel to use a whip to punish a child.

Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.

the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment

They were the victims of a cruel hoax.

He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.

A mother who is cruel to her child is unnatural.

I can't stand people who are cruel to animals.

I was cruel, and I'm never cruel.

And some people are just inherently cruel.

His answer was brutal, cruel and inhumane.

Yet for one creature, that strategy seems almost cruel.

Maybe you'd call it cruel but others would call it love, tough love!

" Fate is cruel, " he thought. " Fate is cruel to me."

You have A cruel sense of humor.

Come home immediately, you cruel boy! '

The slow and agonizing method through which children are tortured and killed seems needlessly cruel.

It's the way of surviving in this cruel cruel world that she finds herself in.