0 extremely unkind and unpleasant and causing pain to people or animals intentionally -- 殘忍的;殘酷的;刻毒傷人的
It's so cruel to keep a pony chained up like that all the time.
Can't you see that you're really frightening your little brother? Don't be so cruel.
We appear to have been the victims of a cruel practical joke.
Fate played a cruel trick on him when he was badly injured in his first international game.
Keeping animals in these conditions is unbelievably cruel - the farmer ought to be prosecuted.
In our present cruel struggle between liberty and slavery, who are the persons starving for want of bread?
Reading the narrative allows the reader to enter a world of adventure that contrasts highly with the cruel world of war.
Observe that the antiphrasis 'popular democracy' is made more cruel by the use of pleonasm.