Sentence examples for to cruel from inspiring English sources
adjective
Not nice; mean; heartless.
- The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
Individuals sometimes derive sexual pleasure from submission to cruel discipline.
He contended that hanging amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
This can lead to cruel self-deceptions and additional pain.
While in detention, he has said, he was subjected to "cruel enhanced interrogation techniques".
Mr. Ghailani contends he was subjected to cruel interrogation techniques while in C.I.A. custody.
It does not subject them to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" which falls short of torture.
"You can equate it to cruel and unusual punishment," Mooney said.
amounted to cruel and unusual punishment," the judge wrote in April 2016.
She was impersonated online and was subjected to cruel, taunting messages from strangers.
Here's what Patino said: Manning has been subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment.
But there is an alternative to peace: endless conflict, swelling now and again to cruel bloodshed.
