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• The pastor preached that even the least of God’s creatures deserves freedom from needless or idle cruelty.From the entry least
• The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.From the entry revolt
• The dictator's cruelty made him the most despised person in the region.From the entry despised
• He revealed his beasthood only in rare moments of absolute cruelty.From the entry beasthood
• We’ve seen faith calcify into self-righteousness, closed-mindedness, and cruelty toward others.From the entry closed-mindedness
• He committed an abominable act of cruelty.From the entry abominable
• The dictator bears a terrible reputation for cruelty.From the entry bear
• That's especially critical in a world where cruelty, war and bad news seem omnipresent.2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR. From the entry omnipresent
• No doubt Siraj had shown traits of ruthlessness, cruelty and profligation before he became a nawab.2016, Sushil Chaudhury, Trade, Politics and Society. From the entry profligation
• Adults love to talk about the importance of bystanders in stopping social cruelty.2013, Rosalind Wiseman, Masterminds & Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New…. From the entry bystanding
• Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do.1983, Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, published 2022, page 225. From the entry derring-do
• Here was only cruelty and pain; where was the loving side of Christianity?1967, Richard Martin Stern, The Kessler Legacy, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 103. From the entry take
• He essays violence, cruelty, because he senses himself weak before the indrawing suction of the bewifed woman.1930 (date written), Dane Rudhyar, Rania: An Epic Narrative, San Francisco, Calif.: Unity Press, published spring 1973, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry bewife
• At the extreme, it's a system that has elevated cruelty to the ranks of a political virtue and a political asset.2023 April 5, David Keen, When Disasters Come Home: Making and Manipulating Emergencies In The West, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry vice signalling
• "We have legislation to protect children from abuse and animals from cruelty," said the charity's deputy chief executive Veronica Gray.2019 November 27, “Adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland 'not fit for purpose'”, in BBC news. From the entry adult protection
• She'd endured cruelty and grief and still came out swinging.2009, Julie Miller, chapter 9, in Out of Control, →ISBN. From the entry come out swinging
• Widmark played hard-bitten commanders whose apparent coldness and cruelty masked a deeper concern with the safety of their men.2008 March 29, Dave Kehr, “A Star Who Mastered a New Moral Ambiguity”, in New York Times. From the entry equivocality
• Words cannot easily describe their cruelty, and their attempted theorisation seems at first glance to be a self-indulgent act of blandiloquence.2004, John Keane, Violence and Democracy. From the entry blandiloquence
• My contention is that in order to maintain the practice of cruelty, a singular narrowmindedness of purpose is put into operation.2003, Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory: Developments in Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 256. From the entry narrowmindedness
• Exhilarated by her own cruelty, she stared at Robin’s Gore-Tex raingear until Robin was provoked to ask why.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry raingear
• While some Yanks treated contrabands with a degree of equity or benevolence, the more typical response was indifference, contempt, or cruelty.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 497. From the entry contraband
• However, he holds that ethics is not capable of proving cruelty—or happiness, for that matter—to be either good or bad.1985, Kenneth Blackwell, The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell, volume 1, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry metaethics
• Altho' I'm against cruelty to Animal life I must admit that sometimes, you have got to be cruel to be kind.1976, M. M. Ahmed, Teenager, volume 7. From the entry be cruel to be kind
• In that cruelty there is a certain kindness, and that is what we are looking for all the time.1960 Sep., Thomas Templeton Murray, “Animals Protection Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Representatives), volume 324, page 2193. From the entry be cruel to be kind
• Their faces changed, and all the meanness, conceit, cruelty, and sneakishness almost disappeared in one single expression of terror.1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 16, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998. From the entry sneakishness
• The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29. From the entry purple
• The conversion of Russia to Christianity was effected, it would seem by a monster of cruelty and lust.1936, H. A. L. Fisher, A History of Europe, Edward Arnold Publishers, page 376. From the entry fratricide
• On the right, this can look like gleeful cruelty, sadistic memes, posts that “own the libs” or sensationalized claims about fraud and conspiracy.2026 February 13, Nathan Taylor Pemberton, “When Posting Becomes Its Own Style of Politics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry populist
• But it is Varney, with his endless ambition, ruthless cruelty, guileless charm, and heartless romance, who truly stands at the apex of modern vampdom.2013, Dave Thompson, If You Like True Blood...Here Are Over 200 Films, TV Shows, And Other Oddities That You Will Love, page 26. From the entry vampdom
• The philosophes contrasted their own irenic calls for tolerance with the church's historical record as the perennial source of cruelty and fanaticism.2002, Colin Jones, “An Enlightening Age”, in The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715–99, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West…. From the entry irenic
• He perceived more clearly the cruelty of Nature, to whom our refinement and piety are but as bubbles, hurrying downwards on the turbid waters.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XXIII [Uniform ed., p. 217]. From the entry turbid
• With good humor if predictably, the emotional topography of the faire facilitates a kind of liberation from both the closet and the cruelty of high school cliquedom.2014, Rachel Lee Rubin, Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture, page 283. From the entry topography
• I never got racked by a baseball or softball, but we did have a gym teacher, who insisted on a weekly session of a "cruelty sport" called bombardment.1999 November 2, Squad Leader, “CUPS Required for Gym Class?”, in alt.support.jock-strap (Usenet). From the entry rack
• He augurised his reign with terrible cruelties, and spent his days in gross debauchery, wasting all the treasures his father had accumulated, and the kingdom sank into comparative insignificance.1995, S.R. Bakshi et al., Delhi through ages - Volume 1, page 118. From the entry augurise
• He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness.1987, Idries Shah, Adventures, Facts and Fantasy in Darkest England, London: The Octagon Press, →ISBN, page 325. From the entry Saxon
• The New World was experiencing the cruelties of many of these mercenary adventurers whose religious medals, Crucifixes and Rosary mumblings were varnishments of a ferocious quest for gold.1969, K. T. Wills, Vanozza: A Novel of the Enigmatical Borgias of the Renaissance. From the entry varnishment
• Romanus at once took the field against the Seljukian hordes, who were now devastating Cappadocia with fiendish cruelty, and had just captured Caesarea and plundered the shrine of St.1921, T.F. Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273, page 107. From the entry Seljukian

Meaning of cruelty

1. noun An indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.
2. noun A cruel act.

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Questions about cruelty in a sentence

How do you use cruelty in a sentence?

Cruelty is used as a noun. For example: “The pastor preached that even the least of God’s creatures deserves freedom from needless or idle cruelty.”

What is a short sentence with cruelty?

“He committed an abominable act of cruelty.”

What does cruelty mean?

Cruelty means an indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.