Synonyms for Cruelly | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "cruelly" (108 found)

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Closest matches (22)

abominably agonizingly atrociously awfully badly baldly balefully barbarously bestially bitterly blatantly brashly brutally brutishly confoundedly damnably deadly

Adverb(4 words)

abusively barbarically brutally callously

Adjective(1 words)

beastly

Strong matches (32)

Related words (54)

intolerably lamentably mercilessly miserably nakedly openly painfully piteously pitilessly relentlessly remorselessly roughly ruthlessly sadly savagely severely sharkishly shatteringly shockingly slaveringly

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Adverb(9 words)

meanly mercilessly nastily oppressively pitilessly ruthlessly sadistically unkindly wickedly

Adjective(3 words)

roughshod ugly unkindlier

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

2 entries

adverbadverb of manner

More specific

3 entries

brutality cruelty sadism

Collocations

6 entries

brutality cruelty harshness malice ruthlessness severity

Inflections

2 entries

more cruellymost cruelly

Derivations

1 entries

cruelty

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It's shameful to treat a child so cruelly.

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I don't like to see animals cruelly treated.

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

Source: tatoeba (700671)

What can have induced him to behave so cruelly?

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Cruelly