| 单词 | cruelty |
| 释义 | cruelty (once / 300 pages) n Cruelty is a characteristic of deliberately causing someone pain. Years of cruelty by their leaders can cause citizens to rise up together and revolt. Keeping a dog tied up outside all day and all night is animal cruelty, while kids' endless bullying of a classmate is another kind of cruelty. In both examples, people act in a coldhearted way that causes another being to feel terrible. The Latin root of cruelty is crudelis, "rude, unfeeling, or hard-hearted," which is related to crudus, "rough, raw, or bloody," the root of crude. WORD FAMILYcruelty: cruelties USAGE EXAMPLES“This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) To Clark, the cruelty only reinforced her ideas about the oppressive system. New York Times(Jan 12, 2012) State prosecutors put them all in foster care and arrested the parents on charges of cruelty to juveniles and second-degree murder. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance Syn|Hypo|Hyper cruelness, harshness brutality, ferociousness, savagery, viciousness the trait of extreme cruelty murderousnesscruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder malevolence, malevolency, malice the quality of threatening evil 2n feelings of extreme heartlessness Syn|Hyper mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness coldheartedness, hardheartedness, heartlessness an absence of concern for the welfare of others 3n a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering Syn|Hypo|Hyper inhuman treatment impalement the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture atrocity, inhumanityan act of atrocious cruelty barbarism, barbarity, brutality, savagerya brutal barbarous savage act outragea wantonly cruel act enormityan act of extreme wickedness abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment cruel or inhumane treatment |
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