"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 • ...

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 6

(1) most, downright

Kolokacji: 2

(2) particularly, especially, unusually

Kolokacji: 3

1. particularly cruel = szczególnie okrutny particularly cruel

2. especially cruel = szczególnie okrutny especially cruel

3. unusually cruel = wyjątkowo okrutny unusually cruel

In a land named for "The Saviour," God seemed unusually cruel at times.
She said, "You're probably thinking that I'm being unusually cruel to tease a dying man, but you see, you're not dying right now.
It was unusually cruel- looking, and at first I had shuddered every time I used it.
Sierra Leone's conflict, though unusually cruel, was simple - essentially a fight over power between a government and a rebellion.
Homosexuals in the camps were treated in an unusually cruel manner by their captors.
There was no doubt that the Romulans could be unusually cruel in their own right.
Hawkins was known throughout the Caribbean as an unusually cruel pirate, often torturing captives, especially women, and rarely showing mercy to the crews of ships he attacked.
Stangl rarely interfered with unusually cruel acts perpetrated by his subordinate officers at the camp.
Franz was known for being unusually cruel and sadistic.

(3) extremely, exceedingly

Kolokacji: 2

(4) unnecessarily, needlessly

Kolokacji: 2

Kolokacji: 9

(6) incredibly, unbelievably

Kolokacji: 2

cruel + preposición

Kolokacji: 4

cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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