Vocabulary
Cruelty
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
cruel behaviour or attitudes.
Urdu meaning
بے رحمی، ظلم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- There has been much agitation by civil society against the `cruelty` that the process has generated, and Bilawal BhuttoZardari promised that the affected population would be rehabilitated.
- Disturbing though this case is, such cruelty against women is certainly not unheard of.
- The current criminal justice system deals cruelty in response to cruelty, be it proven or merely alleged, instead of reflecting on how crime may be deterred better or criminals reformed.
- But these shifts came only after entire regions had been scarred by collective hysteria, state-sanctioned cruelty, and institutionalised repression.
- Both are exclusionary ideologies, with their followers known to perpetrate unimaginable cruelty.
Synonyms
brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarism, barbarousness, brutishness
Antonyms
compassion, mercy
Curator example
“he has treated her with extreme cruelty”
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