mental cruelty
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Noreen Boyle filed for divorce in November 1989 after 22 years of marriage, charging extreme mental cruelty and gross neglect.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 25, 2016
Many applicants plead “mental cruelty,” but defining mental cruelty is a murky affair, often coming down to a judge’s discretion.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
The Supreme Court has said there cannot be any "strait-jacket formula or fixed parameters for determining mental cruelty in matrimonial matters".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2015
The team reportedly confronted Hermann with a letter claiming that “the mental cruelty that we as a team have suffered is unbearable.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2013
I cannot understand the mental cruelty which condemns with contempt human creatures who have had no chance—not one single chance.
From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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