cruel

julma Not nice; mean; heartless.

The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.

What cruelled him was that Imperial Hotel contract.

He was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances.

A shortage of berth space for mega container ships will restrict capacity at Melbourne's port, cruelling Labor's attempts to get maximum value from its privatisation, a leading shipping expert has warned.

Violence is apparently introduced early by the practice of "cruelling": children even in their first months are physically punished and then encouraged to seek retribution by punishing the punisher.

(..) I was referring to the area where you were talking about this practice of cruelling; the pinching of babies, sometimes so hard that their skin breaks and may go septic.