"cruel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

cruel adjetivo

cruel + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 113
cruel punishment • cruel treatment • cruel man • cruel joke • cruel thing • cruel world • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(1) punishment, beating
Kolokacji: 2
(2) treatment, way, manner, form
Kolokacji: 4
(5) thing, necessity, sea
Kolokacji: 3
(6) fate, blow
Kolokacji: 2
(7) smile, grin, sneer
Kolokacji: 3
(10) eye, mouth, beak, lip, talon
Kolokacji: 5
(12) irony, mockery, parody
Kolokacji: 3
1. cruel irony = okrutna ironia cruel irony
  • It seemed a cruel irony that the only way to save the people now was to destroy the church.
  • There may be a cruel irony at work here.
  • His being out of step was a cruel irony.
  • By a cruel irony, she never knew a day of freedom.
  • This is hardly the only cruel irony of the barrier.
  • There is of course a cruel irony with regards to this research however.
  • But he was laughing, if only at the cruel irony.
  • Liberals and Democrats have also become the victims of a cruel irony.
  • He might have reflected on the cruel irony of it all.
  • It's a rather cruel irony when you haven't actually got a postcode to begin with.
2. cruel mockery = okrutne drwiny cruel mockery
3. cruel parody = okrutna parodia cruel parody
(14) month, winter
Kolokacji: 2
(15) face, feature, aspect
Kolokacji: 3
(18) reality, truth, fact
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Intention, choice
Kolokacji: 2
(20) streak, nature, indifference
Kolokacji: 3
(21) woman, mistress, sun
Kolokacji: 3
(22) God, father, stepmother
Kolokacji: 3
(23) enemy, king, foe
Kolokacji: 3
(24) method, injustice
Kolokacji: 2
(26) grip, sword
Kolokacji: 2
(27) cut, insult
Kolokacji: 2
(28) lesson, reminder, tale
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + cruel
Kolokacji: 5
sound cruel • consider cruel • look cruel • seem cruel • turn cruel
adverbio + cruel
Kolokacji: 20
most cruel • particularly cruel • especially cruel • extremely cruel • unnecessarily cruel • ...
cruel + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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