cruel
Example Sentences
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It would mention his role in drafting the Fairfax Resolves at Mount Vernon in 1774, which condemned the slave trade as “wicked cruel and unnatural” and called for putting “an entire Stop” to it.
Rembrandt is such a towering figure that it’s almost cruel to put anyone else in the same room.
The cruelest, the proudest, the most superior and haughty.
From Literature
"Why on earth were we so cruel to her about being late for Pilates?" she says.
From BBC
By contrast the 49ers -- who have been decimated by a deepening injury crisis for much of the season -- suffered yet another cruel blow against Philadelphia, when tight end George Kittle tore his Achilles tendon.
From Barron's
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