Dictionary entry
Cruelly
Pronunciation: /ˈkruː(ə)li/
Pronunciation
/ˈkruː(ə)li/
Myanmar Meaning
(adv) ရက်စက်စွာ။
Definition
cruel /kru:ǝl/ adj ( -ller, -llest ) ၁။ ( derog ) ~ (to sb/ sth) ရက္စက္ေသာ။ ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေသာ။ ညႇဥ္းပန္းေသာ။ a cruel boss/ master/ dictator ❍ Don't be cruel to animals. ❍ His eyes were cruel and hard. ❍ Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind (ie make sb suffer because they will benefit from this later). ၂။ အနာတရျဖစ္ေစေသာ။ ကိုယ္စိတ္ ဆင္းရဲေစေသာ။ မညႇာတာေသာ။ a cruel blow/ punishment/ joke/ fate ❍ cruel (ie bad) luck ❍ War is cruel. ❏ cruelly /'kru:ǝli/ adv ရက္ရက္စက္စက္။ အၾကင္နာမဲ့စြာ။ မညႇာမတာ။ The dog had been cruelly treated. ❍ I was cruelly deceived.
Examples
- A cruel parent
- [cruel to] : How could you be so cruel to someone who never did you any harm?
- She had a cruel look in her eyes.
- A cruel sense of humour
- It’s a cruel world.
- [a cruel blow] : Closing the school would be a cruel blow to this community.