Cruel

(n.) See Crewel.

(a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

(a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

(a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

整理:罗伯塔

• I never will do a cruel thing, come what may. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• His mother will have said all those cruel things about me to him. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Legree, like most godless and cruel men, was superstitious. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I now say, Thank God she did not live to witness the cruel, miserable death of her youngest darling! 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I am sure you had no share in it, or in the cruel suspicions of Mr. Osborne, which are the hardest of all our griefs to bear. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I think so, Mas'r, said Tom; the poor crittur's sick and feeble; 't would be downright cruel, and it's what I never will do, nor begin to. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• To save her from misconstruction, cruel misconstruction, that even my friends have not been able to avoid, becomes my duty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The cruellest looks could not have wounded him more than that glance of hopeless kindness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Not the cruellest scoffer of them all could doubt now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I ha' fell into a pit that ha' been wi' th' Firedamp crueller than battle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It was the cruelest exhibition--the most wanton, the most unfeeling. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

录入:勒达