cruel

Vsevolod Meyerhold, the great theater director, spoke of the effect the “angry, cruel headlines” had on his friend.

It would be cruel to disturb her now with such a revelation of her own negligence.

And it was not, be it remembered, the work of a capricious and cruel despot; it was the tyranny of a solemn legislative assembly.

Aunt Olivia need not have dreaded any more opposition from her cruel family.

And then his gloomy, cruel disposition would reassume its influence, and he thought of revenging the attack upon his life.

Luckily for me, my friend, who was no less clumsy than brave, was not the man to leave me long in this cruel position.