cruel
= brutal, cruel, perverse, unkind, callous, cold-blooded, merciless, brutish, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat.
Nota: Adjetivo.
Ex: Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.
Ex: With cruel suddenness she was being called upon to cover up for him.
Ex: The demand for business information, in relation to its price, is rather perverse in that high price often generates a high demand.
Ex: The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
Ex: Not all large publishing companies are conducted in a callous and philistine manner, motivated solely by profit.
Ex: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
Ex: The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as "Arry," the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
Ex: In his most famous work, the Leviathan, Hobbes famously argued that life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
Ex: One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
Ex: However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.
Ex: As the saying goes, "Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox" -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
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* volverse cruel = become + vicious.