Definition of "cruelly" []

• In a cruel manner. (adverb)

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• "George W. Bush focused on winning the second term cruelly denied to his father, and Mitt Romney still hopes to claim the Republican nomination that his father lost to Richard Nixon in 1968."
• "All had been slain cruelly, their eyes cut from their heads, their backs flayed with heavy whips until the ribs showed."
• "When Tobin cruelly breaks her heart that very same night, the lonely girl peeking out from Sofia's shell retreats, and she becomes flippant and cocky once more."