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n. The quality or condition of being cruel.

n. Something, such as a cruel act or remark, that causes pain or suffering.

n. Law The infliction of physical or mental distress, especially when considered a determinant in granting a divorce.

n. an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.

n. a cruel act

n. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.

n. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.

n. The quality of being cruel; the disposition to inflict suffering, physical or mental; indifference to or pleasure in the pain or distress of others; inhumanity.

n. A cruel act; a barbarous deed; specifically, in law, an act inflicting severe pain and done with wilfulness and malice.

n. . Harshness or strength of physical impression; strength as of a smell.

n. Synonyms Inhumanity, barbarity, savageness, ferocity, brutality.

n. a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering

n. feelings of extreme heartlessness

n. the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

"It's the lives ruined through blunders -- it's the cruelty -- the needless _cruelty_ of it all. ""

compassion    gentleness    mercy   

hardheartedness    cold-heartedness    heartlessness   

inhumanity    barbarity    cold-bloodedness    coldness    harshness    unkindness    fellness    deviltry    devilry    atrocity   

injustice    brutality    selfishness    violence    treachery    folly    wickedness    greed    malice    hatred