Cruelty

Quick meaning: Cruelty is a noun meaning (uncountable) An indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.

Meaning

(uncountable) An indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A cruel act.

Example Sentences

Gay songwriter behind bars! Needs sincere letter to help ease the tension from cruelties inside the joint.

YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture.

Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

Word Forms

• cruelties
• cruellty
• cruelltie

Synonyms for cruelty

Depending on context, synonyms include mercilessness, barbarism, ruthlessness, harshness, cruelness, pitilessness.

Antonyms for cruelty

Common opposites include mercy, clemency.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cruelness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, mercilessness, harshness, cruel.

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