Synonyms for cruelty
ˈkru əl ticru·el·ty

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1. cruelty

   Synonyms:
   hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeance

   Antonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

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1. cruelty, inhuman treatmentnoun

   a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering

   Synonyms:
   pitilessness, inhuman treatment, harshness, cruelness, ruthlessness, mercilessness

2. cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessnessnoun

   feelings of extreme heartlessness

   Synonyms:
   harshness, unmercifulness, pitilessness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, cruelness, inhuman treatment

3. cruelty, cruelness, harshnessnoun

   the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

   Synonyms:
   mercilessness, rigor, pitilessness, inclemency, roughness, hardness, ruthlessness, scratchiness, stiffness, harshness, cruelness, severeness, rigorousness, inhuman treatment, abrasiveness, severity, rigourousness, rigour

Matched Categories

1. • Heartlessness
   • Malevolence
   • Maltreatment

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1. crueltynoun

   Synonyms:
   inhumanity, barbarity, brutality, brutishness, ferocity, savageness truculence, blood-thirstiness

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1. List of paraphrases for "cruelty":

   ruthlessness, cruel, barbarity, inhumanity, brutality, wickedness, meanness, atrocity, savagery, ferocity

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1. Bertrand Russell:

   Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

2. Ryan Pack:

   God: God created the world, God knew the sum total, he knew the absolute value, of how the world was going to be, God does minimal to nothing to stop the malice, injustices, and cruelty. God rejects justice meaning he doesn't properly and appropriately penalize those who deserve to be punished and he doesn't protect and defend those who deserve to be secured. When I look at these harsh realities, my rational thinking activates, and makes me believe that God is pure evil.

3. Bryant H. McGill:

   Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

4. Leon Trotsky:

   In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

5. Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998):

   Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.