cruel
suomi-englanti sanakirjacruel englannista suomeksi
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cruel englanniksi
Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
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(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|year_published=1963|page=193|passage=The thought that something might befall him that would leave her entirely at the mercy of this beast caused him greater anxiety than the probability that almost certain death awaited her should she be left entirely alone upon the outskirts of the cruel forest.
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{{quote-text|en|year=2013|author=Ranulph Fiennes|title=Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth
To a great degree; terribly.
(RQ:Doyle Poison Belt)
(quote-book)
{{quote-book|en|year=1937|author=Vance Palmer|title=Legend for Sanderson|location=Sydney|publisher=Angus & Robertson|page=226|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=fcgLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22cruelling%22+OR+%22cruelled%22&dq=%22cruelling%22+OR+%22cruelled%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwic34uZ9-HNAhVH02MKHYmuBDwQ6AEIfDAQ
{{quote-journal|en|journal=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=1 April 2014|titleurl=http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/scott-higginbotham-laments-loss-of-rebels-hugh-pyle-to-french-club-20140401-zqpea.html
{{quote-journal|en|journal=The Age|date=8 September 2015|titleurl=http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/port-of-melbourne-ships-may-soon-be-too-big-to-pass-under-west-gate-bridge-20150908-gjhkmc.html
(quote-web)
To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Stewart Motha|chapter=Reconciliation as Domination|editor=Scott Veitch|title=Law and the Politics of Reconciliation|publisher=Routledge|year_published=2016|page=83|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=jeQGDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
(quote-web)|title=Peter Sutton discusses the politics of suffering in Aboriginal communities|url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2615274.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117005301/http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2615274.htm|passage=(..) I was referring to the area where you were talking about this practice of cruelling; the pinching of babies, sometimes so hard that their skin breaks and may go septic.
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(l)
Merciless, (l); revelling in another's pain.
Deleterious, injurious; conducive to suffering.
Unbearable, saddening, terrifying.
Strict, unforgiving, mean; not nice.
Savage, vicious, dangerous; displaying ferocity.
Bold, valiant, heroic (gloss)
Sharp, acrid, bitter-tasting.
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