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cruel.

cruel

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Meaning & usage

adj/kʁy.ɛl/

  1. cruel

  2. hard, painful

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis; either remade based on the Latin or evolved from the Old French form crual, possibly from a Vulgar Latin form *crūdālis.

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