Preposition: at

• time: Its far ennemy is cruelty, one cannot be compassionate and cruel at the same time.

Modifies a noun

• irony: The cruel irony was not lost on Derby boss Terry Westley, who finished the game without a recognized frontman on the pitch.

• fate: This seems a very cruel fate for an innocent, harmless sheet of paper.

• tyrant: The sun had long descended, But night brought no repose; Her day began and ended As cruel tyrants chose.

• blow: In the event, Fate dealt a cruel blow.

• twist: In a cruel twist, its located above Starbucks.

• joke: Chris's idea of fun is playing cruel jokes on local journalists.

Modifying Another Word

• unnecessarily: Investigate all possible legal action There are penalties in law for people who are unnecessarily cruel to animals.

• unbelievably: The dealings in the prison are horrific, degrading and unbelievably cruel.

• inherently: All cages - whether traditional battery or so-called ' enriched ' - are inherently cruel and cause laying hens to suffer throughout their lives.

• exceptionally: He was an exceptionally cruel, arrogant, revengeful, and despotic ruler, but a monarch of wonderful power and ability.

• incredibly: No cliché cardboard bad guys, but individuals, shaped into their own hells by an incredibly cruel and corrupt system.

• extremely: These have almost always been taken from the wild to go through extremely cruel training methods.

Infinitive complement

• make: Reads far too many books and thinks it's cruel to make other people do organization while he reads.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: These fates seemed too cruel, even for God to allow.

• sound: This next bit might sound cruel, I dont mean it to.

• feel: But students who choose to participate in labs using live animals also face pressure and can be made to feel cruel.

• consider: There were attempts to get the practice banned because it was considered cruel.

• become: At the upper extreme crimes become cruel, filthy, beastly and disgusting, smiles become malicious and voices venomous.

Preposition: of

• blow: But just four weeks after the opening ceremony, on 30th November, Baird was dealt the cruelest of blows.