ザンコク
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Noun
1. cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
Pitch accent
ンコク
Composed of
remaining; left-over; excess
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
inhumanity; atrocity; abominable cruelty
live broiling of shellfish
Examples (18 in total)
Destiny is sometimes cruel.
It is because he is cruel that I dislike him.
Don't be cruel to animals.
He attacked more savagely than a tiger.
The slaves suffered cruel oppression.
It's a perfect example of cruel fate.
The cruelty of the torture in the police station is beyond description.
It is cruel of him to say such things to her.
It's shameful to treat a child so cruelly.
Cruelty is quite alien to his nature.
There was once a cruel ruler in the country.
The cruel man beat the dog with a whip.
I never thought he was capable of doing something so cruel.
Can a child do such a cruel thing?
It is cruel of them to make the boy work so hard.
I think it is cruel to trap animals for fur coats.
Eventually the cruel man was sentenced to jail.
An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.