Cruel - Law Dictionary Search Results
ill usage
cruel or inhumane treatment
Impiteous
Pitiless cruel
Boarish
Swinish brutal cruel
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Bloody minded
Having a cruel ferocious disposition bloodthirsty
maltreatment
Cruel or inhumane treatment ill usage abuse
death penalty
death penalty : death as punishment for a crime called also capital punishment see also cruel and unusual punishment Gregg v. Georgia in the Important Cases section NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court has held
corporal punishment
corporal punishment : punishment inflicted on a person's body see also cruel and unusual punishment NOTE: The prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S.
VerbarOxymoron
A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word e g cruel kindness laborious idleness
Khond
Dravidian of a group of tribes of Orissa India a section of whom were formerly noted for their cruel human sacrifices to the earth goddess murder of female infants and marriage by capture
Merciless
Destitute of mercy cruel unsparing said of animate beings and also figuratively of things as a merciless tyrant merciless waves
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