cruels

British  

noun

1. another name for actinobacillosis, a disease of sheep

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Example Sentences

Upon reading these elegant contes cruels, compiled in the 1953 collection “Someone Like You,” Noël Coward praised Dahl’s imagination as “fabulous” but also noted “an underlying streak of cruelty and macabre unpleasantness, and a curiously adolescent emphasis on sex.”

From Washington Post

In addition to the Cruels, she suspects there are also members of the Austin, James, Dennis and Porter families.

From Washington Times

Today, though, her powerful fiction is too little read, apart from a handful of eerie tales and contes cruels.

From Washington Post

Since Jackson died of heart failure at 48 in 1965, her work has never lacked for admirers, especially among aficionados of contes cruels and tales of existential disorientation.

From Washington Post

They carry placards saying "Kill the cruels" or "Torture them to death", but it is heartening to see young articulate women on TV having a long overdue conversation.

From The Guardian