"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
(14) month, winter
Kolokacji: 2
(15) face, feature, aspect
Kolokacji: 3
(18) reality, truth, fact
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Intention, choice
Kolokacji: 2
2. cruel choice = okrutny wybór cruel choice
  • Either to go or to stay seemed a cruel choice; but we well knew that there would be no choice.
  • A cruel choice, but one we can undo now.
  • President-elect Bill Clinton faces what some of his advisers regard as a cruel choice.
  • "In politics, you have to decide between evil and less evil, and that can be a cruel choice."
  • But sometimes life is the wrong choice, a cruel choice, a tragic choice.
  • A cruel choice that Redl is forced to make.
  • Here they faced a cruel choice: risk observation from the road, where the traffic was probably Russian, or from the mountaintop.
  • It's a cruel choice, and an unnecessary one.
  • New York is a good example of a state where Medicaid eligibility forces the cruel choice of work or health on poor families.
  • Why should God confront him with this cruel choice a second time, and thus freakishly, when his happiness was at its fullest flower?
(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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