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cruelty
noun as in brutality, harshness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- animality
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fierceness
- heartlessness
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- truculence
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Weak matches
Example Sentences
He is also inflicting more cruelty on the women involved in these alleged sex parties.
Philosophers, going back to Plato and Aristotle, have observed a link between comedy and cruelty.
Shemwell, who was 21 at the time but is now 24, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at the same court after she admitted two counts of child cruelty in December last year.
I won’t forget such cruelty, but in my struggle to stay engaged, I will seek out humor as needed.
And most urgently now, how violence, lies and cruelty work in and on our brains, and how to stop it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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