"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
(3) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
1. extremely cruel = niezwykle okrutny extremely cruel
2. exceedingly cruel = niezmiernie okrutny exceedingly cruel
  • Coming just as the winter outside was beginning to recede into cursed memory, all the ice and snow and fog and wind seemed exceedingly cruel.
  • Experience has been an exceedingly cruel teacher.
  • That's right, I've been exceedingly cruel to her.
  • The novel characterizes Numedides as mad, exceedingly cruel, and somewhat ineffectual.
  • It would be exceedingly cruel.
  • To the Editor: Isn't quibbling about whether Mao was responsible for 70 million innocent lives lost or only 23 million an exceedingly cruel and moot point?
  • Despite being a popular king among his subjects, he was also known by for his exceedingly cruel actions towards his enemies.
  • "From our perspective, Dr. Lee's pretrial treatment appears to be exceedingly cruel," Dr. Lerch wrote.
  • Perhaps frightened by the same schemes which had ensured his elevation, he undermined the nobility to secure his position and was an exceedingly cruel extortionist.
  • A younger succubus who is exceedingly cruel.
(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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