cruel

IPA: krˈuʌɫ

Alternative form of crewel [Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.]

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

Examples of "cruel" in Sentences

The process was extremely cruel.
Man eaters are savage and cruel.
It is very cruel to behead someone.
The stories are harrowing and cruel.
He is cruel, emotionless and shrewd.
Man eaters are uncivilized and cruel.
He is pompous and cruel to the animals.
It is cruel to assassinate a human being.
Is it the use of the restraint that is cruel
It was cruel to disqualify for such a minor fault.
"Mamma! what a cruel, _cruel_ wretch!" cried Walter.
He said: The word cruel has been used and I think it's fair.
Obama employs the word cruel and its derivatives no fewer than fourteen times in Dreams.
The term cruel includes the concept of intent - an intention to inflict pain and/or suffering.
Whoever assigned eight A.M. for Molecular Biology 201 gave new meaning to the term cruel and unusual punishment.
"Godo --" she began; and she cast herself on the lounge that Maxwell had vacated, and plunged her face in the pillow and sobbed, "Oh, cruel, cruel, _cruel_!
The video was recorded in an undercover investigation at Conklin Dairy Farms Inc., said Mercy For Animals, a not-for-profit group that publicizes what it calls cruel practices in the dairy, meat and egg industries and promotes a vegan diet.