How to use "cruel" in a sentence

He hated his grandfather for the unjust, cruel way he had treated his poor father

'Oh, Marius, why are you being so cruel to me?'

You're upsetting me very much, and I don't know why you're being so cruel.'

There is nothing cruel about the face, but I know instantly that this is the man that has Catherine, and I hate that face with all of my heart.

"Now, I am a not a cruel man, Jimmy

But this city is cruel, Jimmy

You see, he is not a cruel man, but he sometimes has to do cruel things

Gran was so excited; it would be awful if this was all a cruel joke

It was too cruel

Everyone knew that the government had cruel and terrible ways of forcing people to speak

She was a sweet old woman, feisty and independent-minded but not the type to play cruel pranks.

And if Michael had slipped into the house like a little boy playing a cruel prank, if he had written that message on the chalkboard, then his hatred of her was far greater than she had thought

Therefore, I will devote what space I am given here to this novel itself and to the savage, brutal, cruel, maddening, insane, inane, nonsensical, stupid, bewildering, toxic, bloodcurdling, lip-chafing, toenail-curling experience of working with a major television network to adapt this novel, and three others, as part of a program that would have been called The Dean Koontz Theater or Dean Koontz Presents or possibly Here's Dean! or even Koontzapalooza

I told him that was a cruel thing to say.

Harris, who is a little cruel, said, 'Now you're going to have a bad day on the river

The adult world can be a cruel place.

And you know I mean it, too.' James is cruel

I tried to be a good wife, but Percival was so cruel! One day in Rome, a lady called Mrs Markland came to visit us

"No, you are wrong," says the cruel magistrate.

In California we have corrupt political men, cruel magistrates and dishonest people