"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
1. cruel thing = okrutna rzecz cruel thing
2. cruel necessity = okrutna konieczność cruel necessity
  • The thought made her feel guilty, but a part of her countered, It's a matter of cruel necessity.
  • Perhaps it is not perfectly honest: but this is one more burden cruel necessity imposes.
  • He thought the force was composed of striplings barely blooded in Dosadi's cruel necessities.
  • What have we done, that this cruel necessity should come on us?
  • Instead of being a cruel necessity, the sad price that had to be paid, inequality is the end, not the means.
  • In his book General Massu, who had been considered by soldiers the personification of military tradition, defended torture as "a cruel necessity."
  • (Contemporaries accepted that violence even within the heart of the family might be a cruel necessity.)
  • I confess it's a cruel necessity, but I assure you there is no alternative.
  • A wrong and cruel necessity.
  • Somehow, the tragic figure managed to convey his deep regret and sorrowful acceptance of the cruel necessities in a mere three words.
3. cruel sea = okrutne morze cruel sea
(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
(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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