The word 'cruelly' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to someone or something being treated in a harsh, unkind manner. Example sentence: The young girl had been cruelly treated by her peers.
There is no evidence that more accommodating tactics, or any of the settlements on offer, would have even slowed the rundown of coal - as the later cauterisation of those areas that broke the strike so cruelly demonstrated.
His wretched failings as a manager were cruelly exposed.
The days before one of the greatest teams in Italian football history was cruelly wiped out in a plane crash at Superga.
Charles Kennedy was a more far-sighted politician, even in drink, than many will ever be sober, and that's what's so cruelly frustrating about his death at 55; that he can never now become what he was capable of becoming.
It looked like Atlético would be cruelly denied.
It's all "Gosh!" and "What a clot!" and it is cruelly well observed, not least because Nighy always seems to play a version of himself in Richard Curtis films, notably The Boat That Rocked (2009) and About Time (2013).
The lower-class, poorly educated soldier unwittingly and repeatedly delivers racist insults to the well-educated, upper-class Egyptians, who begin to take a sadistic delight in treating him cruelly.
With a gymnastic leap, those on the defensive become the underdogs, cruelly repressed by the BBC, feminists, people from Islington, some nebulous "elite" or the suggestion that sometimes a female character in a videogame might wear a decently supportive bra.
She's since been back on the show for her cruelly curtailed lap of honour.
Despite the inclusion of Paula Hawkins (author of bestseller The Girl on the Train, tediously dubbed "the new Gone Girl"), they are what publishers often cruelly call "mid-list authors".
Ask not whether it will quit ousting governments and installing their replacements, but how: cruelly, unleashing the sort of horrors that would set the country back many more years; or by compromise and deal-making?(Picture credit: AFP).
