CRUELLY, adverb 1. In a cruel manner; with cruelty; inhumanly; barbarously. Because he cruelly oppressed, he shall die in his iniquity. Ezekiel 18:18. 2. Painfully; with severe pain, or torture; as, an instrument may cut the flesh most cruelly
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