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.