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Summary

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cruelty:
- Wiktionary:
  cruelty → cruauté
  cruelty → acte, cruauté
- Synonyms for "cruelty":
  inhuman treatment; maltreatment; ill-treatment; ill-usage; abuse
  mercilessness; pitilessness; ruthlessness; heartlessness; coldheartedness; hardheartedness
  cruelness; harshness; malevolence; malevolency; malice

English

Detailed Translations for cruelty from English to French

cruelty:

Translation Matrix for cruelty:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	cruelness; harshness; inhuman treatment; mercilessness; pitilessness; ruthlessness

Synonyms for "cruelty":

inhuman treatment; maltreatment; ill-treatment; ill-usage; abuse
mercilessness; pitilessness; ruthlessness; heartlessness; coldheartedness; hardheartedness
cruelness; harshness; malevolence; malevolency; malice

Related Definitions for "cruelty":

a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering¹
the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance¹
feelings of extreme heartlessness¹

Wiktionary Translations for cruelty:

cruelty

noun

positive pleasure in inflicting suffering
- cruelty → cruauté
indifference to suffering
- cruelty → cruauté

cruelty

noun

Plaisir que l’on éprouve à faire souffrir ou à voir souffrir. (Sens général).
- cruauté → cruelty

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• cruelty	→ acte; cruauté	↔ Grausamkeit — eine Handlung, gekennzeichnet durch skrupelloses, gnadenloses und zerstörerisches Vorgehen, die Schrecken oder Grauen hervorruft.
• cruelty	→ cruauté	↔ Grausamkeit — nur Hilfe:Singular: ein menschlicher Charakterzug, der durch die Neigung gekennzeichnet ist, ohne Skrupel, Zurückhaltung oder Reue zu zerstören, zu verletzen oder zu töten, und dadurch bei Mitmenschen Grauen hervorruft.

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