cruel

• I vented some of the old grudge I owe the college now for forty-five years, for the cruel waste of two years of college time on mathematics without any attempt to adapt, by skillful tutors, or by private instruction, these tasks to the capacity of slow learners. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• He was a wretch of a creature with scarcely a virtue--cruel, deceitful, cold-blooded; and yet I grew to love that brute as much as if he had had the gentleness of a dove. —  Walter and the Wireless
• "Oh, it seems cruel--cruel! —  In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First
• It's cruel, I tell you--cruel and selfish! —  Pixie O'Shaughnessy
• It was cruel--cruel--cruel A little convulsive sob was the only sign of her emotion, and the lingers were clasped together Pardon me, madame," said he, with some hesitation; "but, you see, I do not know the circumstances You do not know why I dared not speak to my own daughter?" —  Sunrise

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