For a long time he had prevented himself from forgetting her cruelties to his younger self, her crimes of omission and commission.
Adair, Tom (Intro) THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES (2003)
He even tried to forget the atrocity stories that were so much a part of his heritage, tales of English conquest and cruelties.
Penman, Sharon HERE BE DRAGONS (2003)
Her little flirtation in Rome seemed inconsequential by comparison with the schedule of cruelties she had dealt out.
Edward Docx THE CALLIGRAPHER (2003)
All related terms of 'cruelties'
cruelty
Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
child cruelty
cruelty directed against children
mental cruelty
behaviour that causes distress to another person but that does not involve physical assault
persistent cruelty
conduct causing fear of danger to the life or health of a spouse (used in matrimonial proceedings before magistrates )
theatre of cruelty
a type of theatre advocated by Antonin Artaud in Le Théâtre et son double that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain, suffering , and evil , using gesture , movement, sound, and symbolism rather than language