英语词汇“cruelty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cruelty

/ˈkrʊəlti

noun (plural cruelties) [mass noun]

1Cruel behaviour or attitudes: he has treated her with extreme cruelty we can’t stand cruelty to animals [count noun]: the cruelties of forced assimilation and genocide...

The casual, unthinking cruelty of children is brilliantly evoked here.
Maybe it was because of casual human cruelty.
A prince may be ruthless when it is prudent, but wanton cruelty is foolish.

Synonyms

brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarism, barbarousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, viciousness, ferocity, ferociousness, fierceness;

callousness, sadism, ruthlessness, relentlessness, mercilessness, pitilessness, remorselessness, lack of regard, lack of sympathy, lack of charity, heartlessness, cold-heartedness, cold-bloodedness, severity, harshness, inclemency;

wickedness, badness, baseness, iniquity, blackness, black-heartedness, evil, fiendishness, devilishness, heinousness, nastiness, unkindness, abuse

rare ferity

1.1 Law Behaviour which causes physical or mental harm to another, especially a spouse, whether intentionally or not: she divorced my stepfather for persistent cruelty...

The jury was told that he had been convicted of grievous bodily harm and child cruelty against a girl in Essex in April 1998.
Her evidence was led in support of three so called specimen counts of rape, six of indecent assault and one of cruelty.
He pleaded not guilty to cruelty and claimed he had entrusted the puppies to a man called Phil.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French crualte, based on Latin crudelitas, from crudelis (see cruel).

单词	cruelty
释义	cruelty /ˈkrʊəlti / noun (plural cruelties) [mass noun] 1Cruel behaviour or attitudes: he has treated her with extreme cruelty we can’t stand cruelty to* animals* [count noun]: the cruelties of forced assimilation and genocide... The casual, unthinking cruelty of children is brilliantly evoked here. Maybe it was because of casual human cruelty. A prince may be ruthless when it is prudent, but wanton cruelty is foolish. Synonyms brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarism, barbarousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, viciousness, ferocity, ferociousness, fierceness; callousness, sadism, ruthlessness, relentlessness, mercilessness, pitilessness, remorselessness, lack of regard, lack of sympathy, lack of charity, heartlessness, cold-heartedness, cold-bloodedness, severity, harshness, inclemency; wickedness, badness, baseness, iniquity, blackness, black-heartedness, evil, fiendishness, devilishness, heinousness, nastiness, unkindness, abuse rare ferity 1.1 Law Behaviour which causes physical or mental harm to another, especially a spouse, whether intentionally or not: she divorced my stepfather for persistent cruelty... The jury was told that he had been convicted of grievous bodily harm and child cruelty against a girl in Essex in April 1998. Her evidence was led in support of three so called specimen counts of rape, six of indecent assault and one of cruelty. He pleaded not guilty to cruelty and claimed he had entrusted the puppies to a man called Phil. Origin Middle English: from Old French crualte, based on Latin crudelitas, from crudelis (see cruel).
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