Definition of Crueler

1. Adjective. (comparative of cruel#English cruel) ¹

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Definition of Crueler

1. cruel [adj] - See also: cruel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crueler

crudest
crudites
crudities
crudity
crudle
crudled
crudles
crudling
cruds
crudy
crue
cruel
cruel and unusual punishment
cruel plant
crueler (current term)
cruelest
cruell
cruelled
crueller
cruellest
cruellie
cruelling
cruells
cruelltie
cruellty
cruelly
cruelness
cruelnesses
cruels

Literary usage of Crueler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Still crueler was the fate of poor Bailly, First National President, First Mayor of Paris: ... crueler end had no mortal.1 Some days afterwards, Roland, ..."

2. History of the French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle (1883)
"Still crueler was the fate of poor Bailly, First National President, ... crueler end had no mortal.* * " Vie de Bailly " (In " Memoires," 1.), p. 89. ..."

3. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Still crueler was the fate of poor Bailly, First National President, First Mayor of Paris: ... crueler end had no mortal.* Some days afterwards, Roland, ..."

4. The Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen (1909)
"t He merely repeated his warning: "It is a story of a crueler age than ours. It goes back to the forest worship of the Druids." She answered: "So long as ..."

5. A History of the Puritans and Pilgrim Fathers: The Puritans in England by William Hendry Stowell, Daniel Wilson (1888)
"Their cry had already gone up to heaven, and yet It required the aggravation of still crueler oppressions ere the thousands of Israel went forth, ..."

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