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cruelties
Variant of cruelty
noun
- the quality or condition of being cruel; inhumanity; hardheartedness
- pl. cruelties a cruel action, remark, etc.
- Law willful infliction of physical pain or suffering upon a person or animal, or of mental distress upon a person
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