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Another word for cruelly

Modifier
    2. See also:

    brutally

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Sentence Examples

  • He did not dislike the work, but was or thought himself cruelly treated.

  • He did not dislike the work, but was or thought himself cruelly treated.

  • It was most unkind of you to cruelly diagnose him otherwise and accuse him of being a thief.

  • Convicts were sent to the state penitentiary of Kansas until January 1909, when it was charged that they were treated cruelly there; in 1909 work was begun on a penitentiary at McAlester.

  • About 951 Adelaide, widow of Lothair, son of Hugh, king of Italy, having refused to marry the son of Berengar, margrave of Ivrea, was cast into prison and cruelly treated.

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