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Example sentences for "cruellest"

Lexicographically close words:
cruel; cruelest; cruell; cruelle; crueller; cruellie; cruelly; cruelte; crueltie; cruelties
  1. If when many had spit in Christ's face or buffeted him, some one should have given him another spit or blow, as if he had not enough before, would you not have taken him to be the worst and cruellest of them all?

  2. But it was the same as if some devil out of hell had entered into the man and told him how to torture me--as if the cruellest tyrant on earth had made me take up the pen and write down my own death-warrant.

  3. Prisoner," he said, "you have been found guilty by a jury of your countrymen of one of the cruellest of the crimes of imposture.

  4. You will often behold it smiling in the last retreat of hatred, in the depths of the cruellest tears.

  5. Instinctively do I recognise that it soars high above the gravest faults and the cruellest wrongs (and how admirable and full of significance is this instinct!

  6. It is the cruellest thing I ever heard," said Hugh.

  7. I think this is the cruellest, cruellest thing I ever heard," said Mr. Gibson.

  8. This seems to me to have been the cruellest operation that I have ever had to perform.

  9. And you wouldn't say that if you didn't know that the cruellest thing you can do to a woman is to hurt her feelings," she retorted.

  10. If she had stayed a month or two longer, I should not have minded it, but it was the cruellest thing in the world to come over just now.

  11. Poor Mr Arnott felt the cruellest disappointment in being deprived of the happiness of attending her in her evening's expeditions, when, whether he conversed with her or not, he was sure of the indulgence of seeing and hearing her.

  12. Hayle had betrayed Kitwater and Codd in the cruellest fashion possible, and by so doing had condemned them to the most fiendish torture the mind of man could conceive.

  13. They had been missionaries in China, so it was rumoured on board, and their zeal had been repaid by the cruellest torture.

  14. These boys, however, fought like little vipers; and were, moreover, amongst the cruellest scoundrels in a cruel army.

  15. It was the cruellest thing ever done on earth!

  16. Call it Fate or Destiny or the will of Heaven--whatever you please--I say it was the cruellest thing that ever happened!

  17. Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.

  18. Do you not know, my dear Cecil, that you are doing the falsest, cruellest thing by dear Annie in trying to hide her sin from me?

  19. In short, Cecil, under the idea of friendship you would have done the cruellest thing in all the world for your friend.

  20. Measures of the cruellest and most barbarous kind were taken for their suppression by Philip the Fair of France, supported by Pope Clement IV.

  21. One of the cruellest sins of any state, in giving petty and tyrannous authority into petty and tyrannous hands, is that it thus brings into hatred and disgust the true and high authority of moral law.

  22. When you have killed Art in an artist, you have done the cruellest murder that earth can behold.

  23. To bring her son back to support and help her would be to do her the last and cruellest wrong.

  24. She gave herself a violent headache, and turned away from all consolation, and denounced herself as the wickedest and cruellest of beings.

  25. But he eventually became the object of conspiracies, and to put them down resorted to the cruellest measures.

  26. My sister believed she should see you no more, Mr Harrel feared a premature discovery of his purposed retreat, and we have all been under the cruellest apprehensions lest you meant not to come back.

  27. In the cruellest anxiety and trepidation, Cecilia then counted every moment till Delvile came.

  28. But hard as these cases are, I feel that the natives have had the cruellest measure meted out to them, and they feel it acutely.

  29. A sovereign may be a man of good intentions, but if he is weak, and allows himself to fall into the hands of despotic Ministers, he is a worse affliction than the cruellest tyrant.

  30. But while serenity was returning to the bosom of Emmeline, that of poor Delamere was torn with the cruellest tempest.

  31. While Emmeline had created in the bosoms of others so much anxiety, she was herself tortured with the cruellest uncertainty.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruellest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.