cruel
IPA: krˈuʌɫ
noun
- Alternative form of crewel [Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.]
verb
- (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.
adjective
- Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
- Harsh; severe.
- (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
adverb
- (nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
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Examples of "cruel" in Sentences
- "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.
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