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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cruellyadverb

    excessively

    "a cruelly bitter winter"

  2. cruellyadverb

    with cruelty

    "he treated his students cruelly"

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  1. cruellynoun

    Synonyms:
    inhumanity, implacability, severity, atrocity, pitilessness

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  1. List of paraphrases for "cruelly":

    callously, brutally, sorely

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  1. Maren Morris:

    A few months earlier and a continent away the same was true in Manchester, England. The painful truth is that this year in just those two events, 81 music lovers, just like us, went out to a night of music and never came home, so, tonight, to honor those we lost, Eric, Brothers Osbourne and I, who all performed in Las Vegas that tragic weekend, want to come together and honor the memory of those music-loving souls so cruelly taken from us.

  2. Gideon McKean:

    CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE McKean was the daughter of RFKs oldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former Maryland lieutenant governor. Gideon was deeply compassionate, declining to sing childrens songs if they contained a hint of animals or people being treated cruelly.

  3. Will MacAskill:

    If you care about animal welfare and the environment, the two are just almost the opposite of each other because the more efficiently you can farm animals, the lower the carbon emissions but the more cruelly you treat the animals.

  4. Sue Scheff:

    Even though the president obviously believes this is OK, this is one of those teachable moments when we need to learn ... even smart people make not so smart choices online, explain to your child that there is never a reason, online or offline, to treat people cruelly. Even if you are the president of the United States, again, it doesn't excuse.

  5. William Shakespeare:

    Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.


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