"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

(3) extremely, exceedingly

Kolokacji: 2

(4) unnecessarily, needlessly

Kolokacji: 2

1. unnecessarily cruel = niepotrzebnie okrutny unnecessarily cruel

2. needlessly cruel = niepotrzebnie okrutny needlessly cruel

I shall ask you to do more than is necessary, though at times you will feel I am being needlessly cruel.
Proctor asked, disproving his contention that he was never needlessly cruel.
Taking Illyan down in such a public arena seemed needlessly cruel.
They say the justice system is needlessly cruel when it deprives them of their children.
He did not tell them that; it would be needlessly cruel.
We do our best in life, but often we are mean, or petty, or needlessly cruel.
"They have no excuse for being needlessly cruel."
Both the sponsors and the Mayor are sending a divisive, needlessly cruel message.
It was needlessly cruel - and hypocritical from a man met climbing out of a window.
Kirk toyed with the idea of letting him suffer for a while, then decided that would be needlessly cruel.

Kolokacji: 9

(6) incredibly, unbelievably

Kolokacji: 2

cruel + preposición

Kolokacji: 4

cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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