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cruelty to someone/something collocation cruel behaviour or a cruel action towards a living creature: I don't believe human beings should be entertained by cruelty to animals. She was charged with eight counts of cruelty to children. See
cruelty He has served time in prison for cruelty to a child. The charity has to deal with the results of many cases of cruelty to cats. He was an unfaithful husband and a bad father, who behaved with great cruelty to his wife. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Unkind, cruel & unfeeling acerbic acerbically acerbity acidly anti-cruelty cold-heartedly cruel cruelly cruelty cutthroat meanness mental cruelty merciless mercilessly mordant trenchant trenchantly uncharitable uncharitably unchristian |