from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Disposed to inflict pain or suffering.
- adj. Causing suffering; painful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Not nice; mean; heartless.
- adj. Cool; awesome; neat.
- v. To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. 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.
- adj. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
- adj. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
- n. See crewel.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Disposed to inflict suffering, physical or mental; indifferent to or taking pleasure in the pain or distress of any sentient being; willing or pleased to torment, vex, or afflict; destitute of pity, compassion, or kindness; hard-hearted; pitiless.
- Proceeding from or exhibiting indifference to or pleasure in the suffering of others; causing pain, grief, or distress; performed or exerted in tormenting, vexing, or afflicting: as, a cruel act; a cruel disposition; the cruel treatment of animals.
- Synonyms Barbarous, savage, ferocious, brutal, merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, unfeeling, fell, ruthless, truculent, bloodthirsty, inexorable, unrelenting.
- Very; extremely.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
"Mamma! what a cruel, _cruel_ wretch!" cried Walter.
"Godo --" she began; and she cast herself on the lounge that Maxwell had vacated, and plunged her face in the pillow and sobbed, "Oh, cruel, cruel, _cruel_!
Whoever assigned eight A.M. for Molecular Biology 201 gave new meaning to the term cruel and unusual punishment.
Obama employs the word cruel and its derivatives no fewer than fourteen times in Dreams.
The term cruel includes the concept of intent - an intention to inflict pain and/or suffering.
He said: The word cruel has been used and I think it's fair.
The video was recorded in an undercover investigation at Conklin Dairy Farms Inc., said Mercy For Animals, a not-for-profit group that publicizes what it calls cruel practices in the dairy, meat and egg industries and promotes a vegan diet.
Mr. Worthington has written a book, The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison, in which he takes the position that Guantánamo is part of what he describes as a cruel and misguided response by the Bush administration to the September 11 attacks.
They ran it nearly naked, in the undies, to protest what they call the cruel treatment of animals.
Animal rights activists have been boycotting P&G for several years because of what it calls cruel practices in laboratory experiments involving animals.
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