"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 • ...
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 • ...
(1) most, downright
Kolokacji: 2
1. particularly cruel = szczególnie okrutny particularly cruel
2. especially cruel = szczególnie okrutny especially cruel
  • It was an especially cruel method of death as it would sometimes take hours, or even days for the victim to die.
  • Golf is an especially cruel game when it all falls apart.
  • Both creatures have been made to wear silly things before, but this game of dress-up with mother nature seemed especially cruel.
  • It is an especially cruel measure because families never know with certainty what has happened to their loved ones.
  • The school, the town, the future, education, and raising children - to destroy these things like that is especially cruel.
  • Lamoriello said he feared the early nights on the road would be especially cruel, and they were.
  • In Bosnia the war has been especially cruel on children.
  • As history shows, the Japanese were especially cruel to their prisoners.
  • I think it is an especially cruel form of livestock management which should be eliminated as soon as possible.
  • Cutting these funds is thus an especially cruel gesture.
3. unusually cruel = wyjątkowo okrutny unusually cruel
(3) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) unnecessarily, needlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) incredibly, unbelievably
Kolokacji: 2
cruel + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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