Cruelty vs Brutally - What's the difference?
cruelty | brutally |
(uncountable) an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.
(countable) a cruel act
In a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.
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As a noun cruelty
is an indifference to suffering or positive pleasure in inflicting suffering.As an adverb brutally is
in a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.cruelty
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Alternative forms
* cruellty (obsolete) * cruelltie (obsolete)Noun
Anagrams
* cutlerybrutally
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Adverb
(en adverb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.