Keyword
cruel
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig1539
Readings
ひど
(56%)
こく
(43%)
Composed of
sign of the bird
reveal
Used in vocabulary (58 in total)
cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
Examples (61 in total)
The road gets worse from here on.
That's why you can say such cruel things without a second thought!
And after lunch was over, the atmosphere in the room was terribly heavy.
Children are innocent and cruel.
What spread out before my eyes was a world that was both beautiful and cruel.
I had intended to be just a little mean, but she was terribly frightened.
It was a terribly tempting offer, but I immediately shook my head.
I truly regret hurling such cruel words at you back then.
Is the conflict that severe?
The answer is brutally obvious.
In contrast to that, there was a man watching the work with great concern.
Horses are, by nature, extremely timid animals.
It is a very harsh race.
It is truly harsh.
It is said that the desert is too harsh an environment for humans to live in.
It is said that sound argument is beautiful and sometimes cruel.
The injury was severe, and it seemed difficult to move it for a long time.
What's more, the northern part of this continent is too harsh for people to live in.
However, those words were cruel.
It is a fact that the princess is coldhearted.
I did not want to think that I was such a coldhearted person.
Since this week started, it's gotten even worse.
Because the world was so beautiful, its cruelty stood out all the more.
Even if it's to survive, I think it's far too cruel a way to treat someone.
This is far too cruel a way to be treated.
It was cruel to make her say anything more than that.
It would be rather cruel to correct it now, so let's just leave it as it is.
It is too harsh to force them to participate.
Mom left because I said something terrible.
Although it is called training, its actual state is not particularly dangerous or harsh.
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 scandal has badly damaged his clean image.
The cruel man beat the dog with a whip.
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.