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cruelty noun [ ˈkrʊəlti ]

• cruel behaviour or attitudes.
• "he has treated her with extreme cruelty"
Similar: brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarism, barbarousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, viciousness, ferocity, ferociousness, fierceness, callousness, sadism, ruthlessness, relentlessness, mercilessness, pitilessness, remorselessness, lack of regard, lack of sympathy, lack of charity, heartlessness, cold-heartedness, cold-bloodedness, severity, harshness, inclemency, wickedness, badness, baseness, iniquity, blackness, black-heartedness, evil, fiendishness, devilishness, heinousness, nastiness, unkindness, abuse, ferity,
Opposite: compassion, mercy,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French crualte, based on Latin crudelitas, from crudelis (see cruel).


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