treat cruelly
suffer cruelly
The job was cruelly difficult.
Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered.
Unkind isn’t the word for it! I’ve never seen anyone treat an animal so cruelly!
The superstratum esquires kept the local people from uprising and joining the Taiping army and squashed the rebeldom cruelly;
The villain in the movie treated the main character cruelly.
She was cruelly betrayed by her best friend.
The dictator ruled the country cruelly for decades.
The animal was cruelly mistreated by its owner.
He was cruelly mocked by his classmates.
The prisoner was cruelly tortured for information.
The workers were cruelly exploited by their employer.
The child was cruelly bullied at school.
The stray dog was cruelly abandoned on the street.
The victims were cruelly taken advantage of by the scammer.
I've never seen a horse beaten so cruelly or with so much anger.
Their new masters used them so cruelly, that they were soon almost all destroyed.
" You scared now" ? Gideon said cruelly.
You have been cruelly used, said Holmes.
The underlying point is serious, Emma is unwittingly but cruelly snobbish.
To mistreat someone is to treat them badly or cruelly.
I was doing my best but the driver was still punishing me cruelly, which seemed very unfair.
White dwarfs have cruelly strong gravity.
" Oh, they were punished, and cruelly, " said Griphook indifferently.
So, cruelly, he attempts to kill his friend Banquo's son.
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