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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cruel/kruːəl/

▶adjective (crueller, cruellest; US crueler, cruelest) disregarding or taking pleasure in the pain or suffering of others.

■ causing pain or suffering.

– derivatives
cruelly adverb.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. crudelis, rel. to crudus (see crude).

'cruel' also found in these Oxford entries:

abuse - animal - animal liberation - atrocious - atrocity - barbaric - beast - bestial - bestiality - biting - brute - callous - cold-blooded - cruelty - dastardly - despot - devil - dreary - duress - felon - ferocious - fiend - fiendish - harsh - inhuman - inhumane - inhumanity - monster - ogre - pitiless - relent - rotter - savage - slaughter - tyranny - tyrant - vicious - victimize - wanton

Forum discussions with the word(s) "cruel" in the title:

aggressive or cruel
concept of a person being cruel
Cruel
cruel shimmer of Scotch
cruel, more cruel, most cruel ?
Kicked I the dog, I would be a cruel person.
My God, you are a 'cruel' customer
Not that they are cruel, these industrious men
the cruel and extreme pernalty [penalty] of execution
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel
tight budgets have become a cruel Grinch
treat me cruel / cruelly treated

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