Cruelly

//ˈkɹuːəli//

"Cruelly" in a Sentence (12 examples)

It's shameful to treat a child so cruelly.

I don't like to see animals cruelly treated.

In a cruelly ironic twist of fate, someday Tatoeba will make an example of us all.

What can have induced him to behave so cruelly?

Not only the workers, but also their wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters older than four are being cruelly exploited.

They treated her so cruelly as to leave few joys in life for her.

Pedophiles are cruelly treated in prison.

The teacher lost his job because he cruelly berated students who made mistakes.

The dad treated his adoptive son cruelly.

The revolt that took place 1871 in Algeria was shatteringly and cruelly defeated by the French army.

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In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.

Unfortunately, if certain national leaders have their way and repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the American dreams of hundreds of thousands of young people will be cruelly ripped away.

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