cruel

Example Sentences

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“He is not ugly. This society is, when it’s greedy and cruel and doesn’t take care of people. Not him.”

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Yet a few paragraphs later she describes the country with three adjectives, “big, cruel, and transcendent,” none of which is unambiguously positive, and urges readers to “make of it what we can.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

"The cruel irony is that AI-generated code requires more careful review than human-written code," software engineer Siddhant Khare wrote in a blog post.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The women who make it to China live in a "cruel paradox", says Lina Yoon from Human Rights Watch.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

How cruel to have to leave all these behind!

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom