"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
7. inherently cruel = z natury okrutny inherently cruel
  • Animal welfare groups argue that any whaling, managed or not, is inherently cruel.
  • Allegations that the sea transport of live animals must be inherently cruel is not evident from trade data or official statistics.
  • Commercial whaling is an inherently cruel practice that represents a significant threat to the conservation status of whales, both rare and abundant.
  • The United States Supreme Court has rejected arguments that capital punishment is inherently cruel and unusual under the United States Constitution.
  • Torture is inherently cruel and unusual under section 12.
  • Darroch stated his action was not aimed at the particular farm he had chained himself to, but rather at an industry that is "inherently cruel, and a government which refuses to act".
  • On Wednesday morning, 619 miles to the north, a House subcommittee will hear the death penalty denounced, not as inherently cruel and unusual, but as unfair and racially discriminatory as applied.
  • Secondly, they argued that, if an activity was inherently cruel, it should be deemed as such by Parliament, rather than prosecutors having to argue and prove cruelty in every court case.
  • He maintained that chaining is inherently cruel to the dogs and endangers human beings because chained animals are exceptionally aggressive.
  • I can accept that some acts are inherently cruel - the issue of consent has nothing to do with it.
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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