"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
(4) unnecessarily, needlessly
Kolokacji: 2
1. unnecessarily cruel = niepotrzebnie okrutny unnecessarily cruel
  • United Nations officials and aid workers contend that the Government's actions are unnecessarily cruel.
  • "That was," he said, still gasping, "an unnecessarily cruel act."
  • Coalition members especially object to calf roping as unnecessarily cruel.
  • Figuring it would be unnecessarily cruel to saddle her with a breakup, I kept my feelings to myself.
  • But they believe that hunting them with hounds is unnecessarily cruel.
  • More than that, her comments had been unnecessarily cruel.
  • He thought the remark unnecessarily cruel, and partly untrue.
  • Yet even Billie's achievement now seems smaller and unnecessarily cruel.
  • To Helen, the reaction seemed unnecessarily cruel and impolite.
  • That would have scored points, but it seemed unnecessarily cruel.
2. needlessly cruel = niepotrzebnie okrutny needlessly cruel
(6) incredibly, unbelievably
Kolokacji: 2
cruel + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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