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The effects of global warming promise to be cruelly ironic.
The disaster has cruelly exposed the gap between his rhetoric and the reality.
He was cruelly treated by his brothers, who sold him into slavery.
She was cruelly taunted by other kids.
It is a tragedy that her life has been so cruelly cut short.
The housing authority was cruelly indifferent to its tenants.
He and his family had had to suffer cruelly at the hands of the enemy.
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European
May 10, 2021
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Shimmer
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