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Example sentences for: cruel

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And if there were, any elective late abortion--even by induction--would be wrong, though D and E and partial-birth abortion would seem especially cruel.
The cruel queen's lights finally expire.
One is lulled into thinking that these contorted bathers are mere exercises in the handling of pastel, and not the work of, in the poet Paul Valéry's words, "a supremely cruel authority on female contours and poses."
It is the remarkably cruel treatment of some people who are actually guilty.
Lots of people writing about this sex scandal want to make Betty Currie out to be the ultimate victim, taken cruel advantage of by a truth-evading president who happened to be her boss.