Vocabulary
Cruelty
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
cruel behaviour or attitudes.
Urdu meaning
بے رحمی، ظلم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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The cruelty dressed up as authority.
Dawn Editorials —
For guests only
— 2026-04-26
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Yet the sight of Israeli ministers and politicians openly celebrating the passage of this grim law lays bare something even more disturbing: a political culture in which such cruelty is not merely accepted, but applauded.
Dawn Editorials —
Executing Palestinians
— 2026-04-01
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I keep wonderingwhy and when mankind fell from grace into such cruelty and darkness.`I`m sorry for the unsolicited rant, I just feel very lost right now, and don`t quite know whom to share these thoughts with.
Dawn Editorials —
Women of wisdom
— 2025-11-30
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Yet, this deliberate, brutal operation is the latest scar on Pakistan`s conscience, rooted in our reliance on an antique statute whose meagre, poorly enforced fines utterly fail to reflect this magnitude of cruelty.
Dawn Editorials —
The captive conscience
— 2025-11-26
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It hampers women`s access to education, employment, and even political participation: all too often working women face online cruelty, while many female public office holders have contemplated quitting politics.
Dawn Editorials —
Web of darkness
— 2025-11-25
Synonyms
brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarism, barbarousness, brutishness
Antonyms
compassion, mercy
Curator example
“he has treated her with extreme cruelty”
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