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- adjective Not
cruel .
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Examples
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(What constitutes an uncruel war is not explained.)
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He saw the kitchen, and his mother's housekeeping, which had often seemed to him old-fashioned and superstitious, now seemed as simple and pure as a prayer; as -- as uncruel, he thought.
Archive 2009-07-01 Linda 2009
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(What constitutes an uncruel war is not explained.)
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He continued to sit in an awed silence, hoping the man would elaborate in an uncruel way.
Suicide Draft Nathaniel Tower 2011
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He saw the kitchen, and his mother's housekeeping, which had often seemed to him old-fashioned and superstitious, now seemed as simple and pure as a prayer; as -- as uncruel, he thought.
Housekeeping in India Linda 2009
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(What constitutes an uncruel war is not explained.)
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The price of $58 is also at least reasonably uncruel.
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She said it without change of tone or expression, with the same happy smile curling up the corners of her uncruel mouth.
The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921
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(What constitutes an uncruel war is not explained.)
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Even if all 50 states opted to pass laws allowing the execution of 7 yr olds who steal $50 or life sentences for minors who commit crimes short of murder, that doesn’t magically make such punishments uncruel.
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