cruelty

CEFRB1

/ˈkɹuː(ə)lti/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture.
Gay songwriter behind bars! Needs sincere letter to help ease the tension from cruelties inside the joint.

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YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture.
2015 May 7, A. O. Scott, “Review: ‘Saint Laurent,’ Beautiful People, High Fashion and Career at Its Pinnacle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2...
Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 9
Gay songwriter behind bars! Needs sincere letter to help ease the tension from cruelties inside the joint.
1980 December 27, Walter Williams, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 15

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From Middle English cruelte, from Old French crualté (French cruauté), from Latin crudelitas. By surface analysis, cruel + -ty.