cruelty

cruauté

Comportement qui fait souffrir des personnes ou des animaux sans se soucier de leur douleur.

En anglais simple : Behaviour that hurts people or animals without caring about their pain.

• His cruelty frightened the children.
• She reported cruelty to animals.
• The prisoners suffered years of cruelty.

Comment l'utiliser : cruelty to someone/something (The law protects animals from cruelty to them.)

Synonymes : brutality, inhumanity

Contraires : kindness, compassion

Expressions courantes : cruelty to animals, extreme cruelty

cruauté, atrocité

Acte qui fait souffrir une personne ou un animal sans aucun souci pour sa douleur.

En anglais simple : An action that causes pain or suffering without concern for the person or animal hurt.

• That punishment was a terrible cruelty.
• She could never forget the cruelties of war.
• He described several cruelties committed against prisoners.

Synonymes : atrocity

Expressions courantes : a terrible cruelty, an act of cruelty