cruel
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- s (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
cruel tortures
- The critics asked: Was this cruel and unusual? His victims' families were unanimous: so was Gacy.
- There came to light last week a letter revealing one of the cruelest tricks one civilized being could well play upon another.
- But the economic downturn and the near-collapse of Wall Street has made Gawker's snarky worldview seem not only cruel but pointless.