Sentence examples for cruel disposition from inspiring English sources
Allen wrote of the voyage that he "was put under the power of an English Merchant from London, whose name was Brook Watson: a man of malicious and cruel disposition".
(Most of the creatures called fairies, by the way Fairyland's full citizens are petty or cruel; the friendly dispositions of marids, dodos, and undersea alchemists more than compensate).
The human disposition is cruel.
It should be recalled that usually in legal dispositions, torture is linked with cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment or ill-treatment.
"Technological progress made over the years allows us to have valid alternatives at our disposition that render the use of cruel practices unnecessary as regards animals.
Travis became obsessed with the show when it aired, and the mysterious character at the show's core: Laura Palmer, the murdered teen queen whose sunny disposition hid a laundry list of sordid activities and a history of cruel treatment.
Quebec's Governor Frederick Haldimand was so upset at Butler's inability to control his forces that he refused to see him, writing "such indiscriminate vengeance taken even upon the treacherous and cruel enemy they are engaged against is useless and disreputable to themselves, as it is contrary to the dispositions and maxims of the King whose cause they are fighting".
Disposition: Claim thrown out.
