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The answer CRUELTY has 20 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of cruelty in various dictionaries:
noun - a cruel act
noun - feelings of extreme heartlessness
noun - the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
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| It's the "C" in the organization ASPCA |
| Muriel Dowding started the cosmetics company Beauty Without this, helping inspire the adjective this-free |
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| cruel behaviour or attitudes. |
| cruel behaviour or a cruel action: |
| Cruel behaviour or attitudes. |
| The quality or condition of being cruel. |
| Something, such as a cruel act or remark, that causes pain or suffering. |
| Law The infliction of physical or mental distress, especially when considered a determinant in granting a divorce. |
| a cruel act a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering |
| the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance |
| feelings of extreme heartlessness |
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Cruelty is indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering. 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 help with no cost or risk, but is merely watching with disinterest or perhaps mischievous amusement, that person is being cruelrather than violent. * George Eliot stated that "cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside itself; it only requires opportunity." Bertrand Russell stated that "the infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell." Gilbert K. Chesterton stated that "cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."The word has metaphorical uses, for example "The cliffs remained cruel." (i.e. unclimbable when they d |
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| MALTREAT |
| MISTREAT |
| MISTREATMENT |
| REVILE |