"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

Grup znaczeniowych: 1

(1) sound, consider, look, seem, turn

Kolokacji: 5

1. sound cruel = dźwięk okrutny sound cruel

2. consider cruel = uważaj za okrutny consider cruel

3. look cruel = wyglądaj okrutny look cruel

4. seem cruel = wyglądaj na okrutny seem cruel

While seeming cruel to some, the brigade adds small, encouraging notes to the lumps such as "Try Harder next year," in an attempt to steer the children back to the nice list.
As a practicing pediatrician in the 1930s, Spock noticed that prevailing methods in pediatric care seemed cruel and ignored the emotional needs of the child.
Still, Mr. McEnroe said, some of the novel-reading callers to the paper have seemed unnecessarily cruel.
So, you should know that whatever he did to you that might have seemed cruel or heartless, it was done with the best of motives.
The Traveler beneficence resembled that of the destroyer: it seemed cruel, but actually fostered an acceleration of maturity.
It would have seemed melodramatic and cruel.
It had seemed unnecessarily cruel.
I knew the men were almost as tense about it as I was, so waiting seemed cruel, or maybe it wasn't cruel.
That seemed cruel and not like her; and yet she may be right.
Better that they were left in darkness; moonlight would have seemed cruel.

5. turn cruel = obracać się okrutny turn cruel

adverbio + cruel

Kolokacji: 20

most cruel • particularly cruel • especially cruel • extremely cruel • unnecessarily cruel • ...

cruel + preposición

Kolokacji: 4

cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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