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cruelties

 
Noun cruelty has 3 senses
  1. cruelty, inhuman treatment - a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering
    --1 is a kind of maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse
    --1 has particulars: impalement; atrocity, inhumanity
  2. cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness - feelings of extreme heartlessness
    --2 is a kind of heartlessness, coldheartedness, hardheartedness
  3. cruelty, cruelness, harshness - the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
    --3 is a kind of malevolence, malevolency, malice
    --3 has particulars:
     ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savageness, savagery; murderousness, bloodthirstiness
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