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cruel
adjective
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 5
- Starts with
- C
- Ends with
- L
- Contains
- RUE
- Scrabble score
- 7
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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adjective
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
“a barbarous crime”
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Example Sentences
a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
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