1) Abuse 2) Atrocity 3) Brutality 4) Callousness 5) Cruel disposition or conduct 6) Evil 7) Ferociousness 8) Ferocity 9) Fierceness 10) French word used in English 11) Harshness 12) Heartlessness 13) Ill-treatment 14) Ill-usage 15) Inhuman treatment 16) Inhumanity 17) Malice 18) Maltreatment 19) Nastiness
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1) Barbarism 2) Bloodthirstiness 3) Brutality 4) Callousness 5) Compulsion 6) Cruelness 7) Domination 8) Evilness 9) Ferociousness 10) Harshness 11) Hatred 12) Heartlessness 13) Impalement 14) Inhumanity 15) Meanness 16) Mercilessness 17) Mistreatment 18) Nastiness 19) Oppression 20) Pitilessness 21) Rage
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Cruelty is indifference to suffering, and even pleasure in inflicting it. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept. Cruel ways of inflicting suffering may involve violence, but affirmative violence is not necessary for an act to be cruel. For example, if a person is drowning and begging for help, and another person is able to h...
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• (n.) A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain. • (n.) The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.
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A conviction or admission in a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction, as a result of a finding by a federal or state administrative agency, whereby an individual was found to have engaged in conduct that would endanger the life or health of an animal or cause undue suffering.
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Concious and cruel attempt of causing physical or mental pain to people or animals.Cruelty is a strong ground for divorce in a husband-wife relationship.It can include physical violence, abusive or use of bad language, neglect, illtreatment, threats of violence etc.Cruelty to children also known as child abuse includes employment of under age child...
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Cru'el·ty (-tȳ)
noun ;
plural Cruelties (-tĭz). [ Old French
cruelté , F.
cruauté , from Latin
crudelitas , from
crudelis . See
Cruel .]
1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or su...
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This word has different meanings, as it is applied to different things. Cruelty may be: 1. From husband towards the wife, or vice versa; 2. From superior towards inferior; 3. From master towards slave; 4. To animals. These will be separately considered.
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Any act of inflicting unnecessary emotional or physical pain. Cruelty or mental cruelty is the most frequently used fault ground for divorce because as a practical matter, courts will accept minor wrongs or disagreements as sufficient evidence of cruelty to justify the divorce. Now that every state has some version of no-fault divorce, cruelty is r...
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n] - feelings of extreme heartlessness 2. [n] - the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance 3. [n] - a cruel act
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noun the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
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mercilessness noun feelings of extreme heartlessness
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Conscious action or inaction that may endanger life or cause serious health consequences to animals.
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the state or quality of being cruel. · cruel disposition or conduct. · a cruel act. · conduct by a spouse that causes grievous bodily harm or mental suffering.
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