Keyword
cruel
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig1539
Readings
ひど
(55%)
こく
(44%)
Composed of
sign of the bird
reveal
Used in vocabulary (58 in total)
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
Examples (31 in total)
The smell is disgusting.
An awful accident happened yesterday.
Can a child do such a cruel thing?
I never thought he was capable of doing something so cruel.
Don't be cruel to animals.
It's shameful to treat a child so cruelly.
It was cruel of him to say such things to her.
It is cruel of him to say such things to her.
He attacked more savagely than a tiger.
It is cruel of them to make the boy work so hard.
She appears to me to be cruel.
Cruelty is quite alien to his nature.
It is because he is cruel that I dislike him.
I could not image how cruel he was at that time.
I don't like to see animals cruelly treated.
What horrible weather.
There was once a cruel ruler in the country.
The surrender terms were harsh.
I think it is cruel to trap animals for fur coats.
Eventually the cruel man was sentenced to jail.
Tom felt very lonely.
Destiny is sometimes cruel.
The cruel man beat the dog with a whip.
The scandal has badly damaged his clean image.
The devastation in Kobe was as terrible as I had imagined.
The slaves suffered cruel oppression.
It's a perfect example of cruel fate.
The girl was at the mercy of his cruelty.
An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.
The cruelty of the torture in the police station is beyond description.
He caught a terrible cold.