Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Cruelty"

A: This makeup brand is cruelty free.
Animal cruelty could result in five-year jail sentence.
The cunning and cruelty which marred his character were forgotten, and his services to his church and country remembered.
During Khmer Rouge, the Cambodians were beaten, starved, and treated with extreme cruelty.
Cruelty towards others was not tolerated in the peaceful and kind school environment.

A: They mean the same thing in everyday talk but sometimes one sounds better than the other. I would say cruelness is not used very often.

A: Brutality is the act of being violent and cruel, whereas, cruelty is being indifferent towards someone’s pain or suffering.
Eg. Protest again cruelty to animals. (To be against the indifference towards animals’ pain)
The brutality of her husband(her husband being violent)
Hope that makes sense!

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A: Do you mean something like “expectations can be cruel sometimes”?

A: It shows the cruelty of the group by using irony, such as the title itself, ’The Lottery,’ following the unfair opinion by group power, and the group behavior that changes from the beginning.

A: You can say the "cruelty of humanity" but "sinisterness" is extremely uncommon (I had to check to make sure it actually existed!)


I would avoid using "humanity" when talking about negative traits because "humanity" can also be used as a word that effectively means the opposite of "cruelty".


"The cruelty of man" or "man's cruelty" sound best to my ears