26984 words

cruelly

2 definitions • 4 examples
1
in an extremely unkind and unpleasant way:

Examples:

She was cruelly taunted by other kids.
He was cruelly treated by his brothers, who sold him into slavery.
2
in a way that causes great suffering:

Examples:

The disaster has cruelly exposed the gap between his rhetoric and the reality.
The effects of global warming promise to be cruelly ironic.

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