Cruel

[Fr.; Lat. crudelis, from crud us - cruor, blood.] Bloody-minded; unmerciful; unfeeling; hard-hearted; inhuman; void of pity or compa ion; disposed to pain, afflict, torture, or oppre others; as, a cruel husband. "I must be cruel, only to be kind."-Shaks. -Barbarous; ferocious; brutal; fell; severe; destructive: savage; causing pain, suffering, or misery; as, a cruel tyrant. "Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave."-Thomson. Cru'elly, adv . In a cruel manner; with cruelty; as, to be treated cruelly .