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单词 cruelty
释义
cruelty
noun[UorC]
uk
/ˈkruː.əl.ti/us
/ˈkruː.əl.t̬i/
B2
cruelbehaviouror acruelaction:
残忍，残酷；残酷行为；虐待
Thefarmerwasaccusedof crueltytoanimals.农场主被指控虐待动物。
More examples
  • Theslavesweretreatedwithsickeningcruelty.
  • Ifindany cruelty tochildrenutterlyrepellent.
  • Shedivorcedherhusbandon thegroundsofmentalcruelty.
  • The crueltydisplayedby these torturers is hard tocomprehend.
  • Thisarrogantandevilcharacterused cruelty andfeartocontrolhiswholefamily.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
  • acerbic
  • acerbity
  • acidly
  • anti-cruelty
  • anti-humanitarian
  • cutthroat
  • fiendish
  • fiendishness
  • hard-hearted
  • harshly
  • nastiness
  • nasty
  • pitiless
  • pitilessly
  • pitilessness
  • unchristian
  • uncompassionate
  • unfeeling
  • ungenerous
  • ungenerously
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(Definition ofcrueltyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcruelty

cruelty
In cases explicitly labelled as 'cruelty' there were also grey areas of interpretation.
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Rather than directly indict the fashionable elite, critics of the bearing rein were quick to attribute its prevalence to working classcrueltyand stupidity.
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There can be no neutrality between justice andcruelty, between the innocent and the guilty.
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An active nihilism, however, could provide the ground for goodness to emerge fromcruelty.
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It did not accept the general principle thatcrueltyto animals for amusement was unjustified.
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And as you reel from thecruelty, you are struck too by the ability of music to provoke such reactions.
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Without such a recognition and outcry, these cruelties continue, victims are ignored, and the survivors remain untreated.
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In general, 16th- and 17thcentury observers of the empire understood tyranny as absolute rule based on thecrueltyof the ruler.
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The analogy of primitive and statistcrueltyis, for this reason, false.
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Women had to watch their steps very carefully in the in-laws' home or risk a great deal of niggling mentalcruelty.
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The question ofcrueltytherefore took second place to other more pressing priorities.
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The question of animalcrueltythus took second place to electoral considerations.
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Although he has copious material to illustrate the cruelties and oppression of the colonial cotton growing system, this is not the principal theme.
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In those days, he wrote scorching little plays animated by malice and spite in which comedy andcrueltywould regularly copulate.
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It does, however, make possible cruel misuses - such cruelties being visited upon both guilty and innocents.
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Collocationswithcruelty

cruelty

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 strikingactofcruelty.
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extreme cruelty
Other cases ofextremecrueltycame to light after investigation.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
physical cruelty
Second, another limitation concerns the measures of emotional andphysicalcruelty.
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