cruelty
/ˈkruːəlti/
noun
- Behavior that causes physical or emotional pain to others; the quality of being cruel.
- The cruelty of the punishment was out of proportion to the crime.
- Animal cruelty is illegal in many countries.
- She left him because she could no longer tolerate his cruelty.
- A cruel act or remark.
- He regretted the small cruelties he had said in anger.
- The children suffered many cruelties at the hands of their captors.
- History is full of cruelties committed in the name of power.
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