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cruelty
Found in thesaurus: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment, coldheartedness, hardheartedness, heartlessness, malevolence, malevolency, malice
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cruelty
n.
cruel treatment; heartlessness, brutality
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Cruelty
Cruelty is indifference to suffering, and even pleasure in inflicting it. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept. Cruel ways of inflicting suffering may involve violence, but affirmative violence is not necessary for an act to be cruel. For example, if a person is drowning and begging for help, and another person is able to help, but merely watches with disinterest or perhaps mischievous amusement, that person is being cruel — rather than violent.
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cruelty
Noun
1. a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering
(synonym) inhuman treatment
(hypernym) maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse
(hyponym) impalement
2. feelings of extreme heartlessness
(synonym) mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness
(hypernym) heartlessness, coldheartedness, hardheartedness
3. the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
(synonym) cruelness, harshness
(hypernym) malevolence, malevolency, malice
(hyponym) ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savageness, savagery
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cruelty
n.
krutost
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cruelty
Rzecz.
okrucieństwo (wobec kogoś); okrucieństwo
