cruel

How do you parody someone who is both so cruel and ridiculous?

Andrew Moll, the chief inspector of Marine Accidents, said it was a "cruel lesson of how rapidly things can go dreadfully wrong".

Criminal justice experts and politicians have criticised IPPs as being "cruel, unjust and damaging".

The mother of a prisoner, who is still in jail 18 years after being given a "cruel and unjust" indefinite prison term, is calling for MPs to back a bill to resentence all 2,734 prisoners in his situation who are still behind bars.

They described beatings, sexual abuse, forced nudity and other cruel treatment at the hands of their jailers.