cruel

cruel

1. julma

Liittyvät sanat: merciless

Synonyymisanakirja

cruel

epäinhimillinen, julma, barbaarimainen, brutaali, kauhistuttava, raju, raaka, väkivaltainen.

Rimmaavat sanat

cruel rimmaa näiden kanssa:

askel, harha-askel, taka-askel, laukka-askel, puoliaskel, tanssiaskel, vauhtiaskel, ristiaskel, sävelaskel, puolisävelaskel...

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Englannin sanakirja

cruel (englanti > suomi)

1. julma

cruel englanniksi

1. Not nice; mean; heartless.

The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.

2. puhekieltä cool Cool; awesome; neat.

3. puhekieltä To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)

4. 1937, Vance Palmer, Legend for Sanderson, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, p. 226, https://books.google.ca/books?id=fcgLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22cruelling%22+OR+%22cruelled%22&dq=%22cruelling%22+OR+%22cruelled%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwic34uZ9-HNAhVH02MKHYmuBDwQ6AEIfDAQ

What cruelled him was that Imperial Hotel contract.

5. 2014, (w), 1 April, 2014, http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/scott-higginbotham-laments-loss-of-rebels-hugh-pyle-to-french-club-20140401-zqpea.html

He was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances.

6. 2015, (w), 8 September, 2015, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/port-of-melbourne-ships-may-soon-be-too-big-to-pass-under-west-gate-bridge-20150908-gjhkmc.html

A shortage of berth space for mega container ships will restrict capacity at Melbourne's port, cruelling Labor's attempts to get maximum value from its privatisation, a leading shipping expert has warned.

7. puhekieltä To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

8. 2007, Stewart Motha, "Reconciliation as Domination" in Scott Veitch (ed.), Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, Routledge, 2016, p. 83, https://books.google.ca/books?id=jeQGDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

Violence is apparently introduced early by the practice of "cruelling": children even in their first months are physically punished and then encouraged to seek retribution by punishing the punisher.

9. 2009, Mark Colvin, ABC, "Peter Sutton discusses the politics of suffering in Aboriginal communities," 2 July, 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2615274.htm

(..) I was referring to the area where you were talking about this practice of cruelling; the pinching of babies, sometimes so hard that their skin breaks and may go septic.

10. (l)

11. hard, painful

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