cruelsome

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1. Marked by cruelness or cruelty.

   Hayber was rewarded for his services in the most cruelsome manner. He was shot dead.

   1993, Harish Yadav, Incredible But True

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   Two days out of every three, the prisoners were guarded by a gang of ignorant and cruelsome Negroes.

   2008, David J. Emmick, Defending the Wilderness

   While there may be production-specific reasons for the decision not to make use of the stadium environment as a film setting – as the authentic site of its cruelsome misappropriation as a refugee camp and later as a slaughtering place – [...]

   2010, Sybille Frank, Silke Steets, Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment

   Whereas, such activities parade cruelsome consequences on the nation's socio-political and economic development quest.

   2013, Stephen B. Oladipo, Vision 20 2020 & The Menace of Vandalism

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1. informalnonstandardIn a cruelsome manner; severely.

   The weather is “cruelsome hot.”

   2015, Rodman Philbrick, Coffins