how to pronounce cruelty

/ˈkɹuː.əl.ti/

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cruelty is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of cruelty in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… and they are 100 cruelty free and vegan …”

meaning of cruelty

Cruelty is the act of deliberately causing pain or suffering for personal gain.

cruelty frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word cruelty occurs in english on average 7.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cruelty can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cruelty can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;