mental crueltynoun [ U ]
uk/ˌmen.təl ˈkruː.əl.ti/us/ˌmen.t̬əl ˈkruː.əl.t̬i/behaviour that makes another person suffer emotionally but does not involve physical violence:
She divorced her husband on the grounds of mental cruelty.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
- acerbic
- acidly
- backbite
- backbiting
- backhanded
- barbaric
- bilious
- cruelty
- cutthroat
- fiendish
- hard-hearted
- have a heart of stone idiom
- insensible
- malign
- remorseless
- ruthless
- sadism
- sadist
- savagery
- waspish
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