"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. deliberately cruel = rozmyślnie okrutny deliberately cruel
2. terribly cruel = szalenie okrutny terribly cruel
4. equally cruel = tak samo okrutny equally cruel
5. unconstitutionally cruel = niezgodnie z konstytucją okrutny unconstitutionally cruel
6. doubly cruel = podwójnie okrutny doubly cruel
  • The indigenous knowledge Pizarras has learned about the Philippine Tarsier that he shares with the visitors at the Philippine Tarsier Research and Development Center are that it is useless and doubly cruel to keep the animal as a pet because it is capable of "committing suicide" in captivity.
  • Life in a field of death was doubly cruel.
  • Mishiko had suffered a doubly cruel blow, and since no one was supposed to know of the relationship, Min-Orota could not openly do or say anything to allay her sense of loss.
  • I cannot, and it would be doubly cruel of me to encourage you further as a soloist.
  • Life is cruel to us all but it was doubly cruel to her.
  • It seemed doubly cruel to have to learn such news twice.
  • For me, his loss was doubly cruel: his death deprived me of both my foundation and the bridge to my faraway grandmother.
  • Finally, she complained that animal experimentation was doubly cruel because of the unnecessary repetition of experiments to replicate or prove the same point, which in many cases she argued could have been arrived at by simple, common sense.
  • To speak of punishment for such unfortunate people is doubly cruel: users do not in most cases deserve to be jailed or deported to camps, and all too few would be helped to overcome their addictions or weaknesses by enforced subjection to "grueling" conditions.
  • That she should be forced to witness my awful death made my bitter fate seem doubly cruel.
7. inherently cruel = z natury okrutny inherently cruel
8. notoriously cruel = notorycznie okrutny notoriously cruel
9. unspeakably cruel = okropnie okrutny unspeakably cruel
(6) incredibly, unbelievably
Kolokacji: 2
cruel + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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