Hunting can be a cruel amusement and it often is; but it is the best training in the whorl for a trooper.

And it truly was Katal now, the familiar face from years past filled with hatred and a cruel amusement.

The man sounded surprised, and his voice lost that faint trace of cruel amusement.

The eyes were nearer now, halted, quietly watching them, gloating, glittering with cruel amusement.

Malys had murdered hundreds of people and displaced thousands more, driving them from their homes, terrorizing them as they fled for her own cruel amusement.

But the tone Rubra used had a hint of cruel amusement in it.

It could not simply be a form of cruel amusement for the gods, could it?

Then a glint of cruel amusement lit up her face with sinister glee.

A spark of cruel amusement gleamed in the shadowed eyes.

He is killed by Clock King, who was using the Club for gladiator fights and simple cruel amusements.