"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
  • According to the texts, he was particularly cruel against women.
  • That the boys could not eat a meal without the threat of violence was described as "particularly cruel".
  • Several factors have made the abuse particularly cruel and degrading.
  • It was particularly cruel, in a way, for things on this world were finally beginning to work correctly.
  • This time, it's happened to us in a particularly cruel way.
  • California has been particularly cruel to the hopes of big spenders.
  • Pediatrics was a particularly cruel field for someone in her circumstances.
  • Next month is shaping up to be a particularly cruel period.
  • For the disease seemed selective of its victims in only one particularly cruel respect.
  • Just a few years ago there were particularly cruel cases of torture in Kosovo.
2. especially cruel = szczególnie okrutny especially cruel
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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