cruelness

Example Sentences

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There is a cruelness to how fate treats those who put their lives on the line for their country.

From Washington Times • Nov. 27, 2019

I look for episodes that put Sheldon in his place due to his inherent cruelness to most people.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2018

It doesn’t invalidate the role of government in offering a form of protection against the vagaries of the free market and the cruelness of fate.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2017

Should we pity Cersei, whose cruelness, after all, may have bloomed from her fear that she will one day bury her children in gold shrouds?

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2015

If there were such cruelness in the world, then it might indeed be true that Sass had taken me to this place of widows just to get rid of me.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan