Cruelty is the intentional infliction of suffering or the inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available. [1] Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept.

The meaning of CRUELTY is the quality or state of being cruel. How to use cruelty in a sentence.

cruelty to The farmer was accused of cruelty to animals. The slaves were treated with sickening cruelty. I find any cruelty to children utterly repellent. She divorced her husband on the …

2009年12月7日 · Most of us find cruelty in children as unacceptable as we find it in adults and often attempt to quell it when we see it. And yet if we fully apprehend the true cause of cruelty, we're also...

Synonyms for CRUELTY: brutality, atrocity, barbarity, inhumanity, savagery, sadism, savageness, heartlessness; Antonyms of CRUELTY: compassion, sympathy, humanity, kindness, humaneness, tenderness, benignity, warmth

Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.

Cruelty is a characteristic of deliberately causing someone pain. Years of cruelty by their leaders can cause citizens to rise up together and revolt. Keeping a dog tied up outside all day and all night is animal cruelty, while kids' endless bullying of a classmate is another kind of cruelty.