cruelty.

Layelah, however, was not at all discouraged, nor did she lose any of her amiability; but when she took leave it was with a smile and sweet words of forgiveness on her lips for what she called my cruelty.

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

Of course those who deny that under any circumstances it can be right to inflict suffering on other sentient beings for our own good, must object to even this much of what they call cruelty.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

“The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” can be seen as a dark comedy, but the comedy is one rooted in cruelty.

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The treaty defines two classes of offense, torture and cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment which I will call cruelty.

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Lately we have read of a case, and many like it were reported in the _New Witness_, where failure to wash children adequately was called cruelty.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

The Sergeant of the guard is all right, but some of them are devils; they are looking for promotion, and know the way to get it is to excel in cruelty.

Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918

He protests against excessive cruelty in the infliction of legal penalties, and especially against the use of torture, on two grounds; first, that experience demonstrates the uselessness of these superfluous rigours; and, second, that the habit of witnessing atrocious punishments familiarises both criminals and others with the idea of cruelty.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

Kindness, it may be, has done it, but it is that kindness which is better called cruelty.

Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876

As thou didst hunt men as wild beasts, so shalt thou be hunted thyself as a wild beast, which thou resemblest in cruelty. because of men's blood -- shed by thee; repeated from Hab 2: 8.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The Master said, 'To put the people to death without having instructed them; -- this is called cruelty.

The Chinese Classics — Volume 1: Confucian Analects James Legge 1856