"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
2. cruel mockery = okrutne drwiny cruel mockery
  • They must have seemed a cruel mockery to prisoners at the time, but from this vantage point they seem to speak of natural renewal.
  • The ice woman responded with a sway of body that said hips were moving in cruel mockery beneath her clothing.
  • No false trail here; just a cruel mockery of what might have been.
  • But Jack's cruel mockery of that idea and the boys' terror defeat Simon.
  • Her childhood had been a cruel mockery, and her marriage an absolute sham.
  • The four days' journey promised in Aptos seemed a cruel mockery.
  • Despite the cruel mockery of situation, he was regal.
  • Such a search would have seemed superfluous and vile, a cruel mockery of men so close to death.
  • His glance, charged with cruel mockery, took in every line of her pallid face.
  • It was a gallows scene, a cruel mockery of her youth and unfulfilled potential.
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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