0 extremely unkind and unpleasant and causing pain to people or animals intentionally: --
1 extremely unkind and intentionally causing pain: --
Is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment?
Her classmates made some cruel remarks.
By comparison, when readers turn the page they see the terrible consequences of the hunter's cruel actions.
The enterprise was a response to the big city as a metaphor for cruel irrationality.
Is that cruel when the end is in sight?
Hone, moreover, secured for himself the symbolic high ground by portraying himself as the victim of a cruel and arbitrary ministry.
Perhaps they are thought to have certain rights-maybe it is considered cruel to sharpen them.
The right against cruel and inhumane treatment is an obvious example among many.
He must be cruel, for they lament and weep, being chastized without cause.
He presented himself as a competent person who knew the answers better than other students, especially younger ones, with whom he was often surreptitiously cruel.
