adj.
VERBS
▪ be , seem , sound
▪ become
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪
an extremely ~ regime
▪ incredibly , unspeakably
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
▪ deliberately
▪ unnecessarily
PREPOSITION
▪ to
▪
I can't stand people who are ~ to animals.
Cruel is used with these nouns: ↑ blow , ↑ deception , ↑ eye , ↑ fate , ↑ hoax , ↑ irony , ↑ joke , ↑ laugh , ↑ laughter , ↑ luck , ↑ master , ↑ parody , ↑ punishment , ↑ reality , ↑ sport , ↑ streak , ↑ taunt , ↑ treatment , ↑ trick , ↑ truth , ↑ twist , ↑ tyrant , ↑ world