Collocations withcruelty
These are words often used in combination withcruelty.
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act of cruelty
One reads, almost every week, of cases in the country where a man is fined a few shillings for some striking act of cruelty.
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extreme cruelty
Other cases of extreme cruelty came to light after investigation.
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physical cruelty
Second, another limitation concerns the measures of emotional and physical cruelty.
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prevention of cruelty
There is an organisation that has for its object the prevention of cruelty to children.
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unnecessary cruelty
Hargrove's own study of the history of environmental/animal liberation ideas suggests that the key frames of these movements were respectively, wanton destruction and unnecessary cruelty.
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