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Crossword-Solution: CRUEL 5 letters, 309 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Cruel n. See Crewel.
Cruel a. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt,
torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity;
savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
Cruel a. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Cruel a. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

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Word Anagrams
CRUEL anagram CLUER, CUREL, LUCRE, ULCER

We have 309 clues for the answer “CRUEL”

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"___ Shoes" (Steve Martin book) 1 answer
"___ wars, wasting the earth."—Milton 1 answer
Unfeelingly harsh 1 answer
Adjective for the sea. 1 answer
Bananarama's "Summer" 1 answer
Capable of atrocities 1 answer
Eighth Amendment adjective 1 answer
Eighth Amendment word 1 answer
Elvis' "Don't Be ___" 1 answer
Elvis's "Don't Be ___" 1 answer
Fur-obsessed vil___in created by Dodie Smith 1 answer
Having no mercy 1 answer
Illegal kind of punishment 1 answer
Ironhearted 1 answer
Like April, per Eliot 1 answer
Like Caligula 1 answer
Like Monsarrat's sea 1 answer
Like Ms. deVille 1 answer
Like Sade. 1 answer
Like Simon Legree 1 answer
Like Vlad the Impaler 1 answer
Like a Grand Inquisitor 1 answer
Like a hard puzzlemaker 1 answer
Like a sadist 1 answer
Like de Sade 1 answer
Like fate, often 1 answer
Like some practical jokes 1 answer
Like the Murdstones in "David Copperfield" 1 answer
Mean, and then some 1 answer
Meaner than mean 1 answer
Merciless (5) 1 answer
Monsarrat's "The ___ Sea" 1 answer
Nasty and then some 1 answer
Not at all kind-hearted 1 answer
Quite heartless 1 answer
Steve Martin's "___ Shoes" 1 answer
Twisting the knife, say 1 answer
Tyrannic. 1 answer
Unacceptable, as punishment 1 answer
Unusual companion? 1 answer
Unusual partner 1 answer
Unusual's partner? 1 answer
Very unkind 1 answer
Villainous in manner 1 answer
excessively mean 1 answer
heartless brutal 1 answer
savage very unkind 1 answer
Deliberately hurtful 2 answers
Like Cinderella's stepmother 2 answers
Like Cinderella's stepsisters 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
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greedy person
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Sentences with CRUEL (5)

For himself he kept the West-Wind, Gave the others to his children; Unto Wabun gave the East-Wind, Gave the South to Shawondasee, And the North-Wind, wild and cruel, To the fierce Kabibonokka.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
The Fox should be always cunning, the Hare timid, the Lion bold, the Wolf cruel, the Bull strong, the Horse proud, and the Ass patient.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the “white sails” of the Chesapeake were bound, you began, I see, to gauge the wretchedness of the slave, not by his hunger and want, not by his lashes and toil, but by the cruel and blighting death which gathers over his soul.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Night, in its sad, solemn, and benevolent aspect, apart from its stealthy and cruel side, was personified in this form.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Strange, too, for one who has kept his calmness throughout the contest, to observe the bloodthirstiness that is developed in the hour of triumph, and to be conscious that he is himself among its objects! There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with CRUEL (3)

On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and…
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.
Neil Strauss The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 172 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).