Definition of Cruel

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Definition of Cruel

Cruel

See Crewel.

Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

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Cruel Quotations

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
Ann Coulter

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin

Cruel Translations

cruel in Afrikaans is wreedaardig
cruel in Danish is grusom
cruel in Dutch is wreed, barbaars, wreedaardig
cruel in Finnish is julma
cruel in French is cruel
cruel in German is grausam
cruel in Italian is crudele
cruel in Latin is crudelis, atrox, inhumanus, ferreus
cruel in Norwegian is grusom
cruel in Spanish is cruel
cruel in Swedish is grym

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