adjective (crueller, cruellest)
1 (to sb/sth) having a desire to cause pain and suffering:
a cruel dictator * I can't stand people who are cruel to animals. * Her eyes were cruel and hard. * Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind (= make sb suffer because it will be good for them later).
2 causing pain or suffering:
a cruel punishment / joke * Her father's death was a cruel blow.
cruelly adverb:
The dog had been cruelly treated. * I was cruelly deceived.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cruel is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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