He did what needed doing with runaways, but he wasn't deliberately cruel about it.

It's not that she's being deliberately cruel to Shirley.

It's not a deliberately cruel civilization, Christian thought, but neither is it an especially compassionate one.

"You weren't trying to be deliberately cruel," Krystyna went on from the viewscreen.

But, do you know, you never get over the ability to have your feelings hurt by deliberately cruel and destructive attacks.

Not that the scientists were deliberately cruel, they simply didn't see Chester as human.

A deliberately cruel way of killing, used by someone who had hoped to leave no traces.

The author of this poem, I think, is unlikely to be deliberately cruel.

No, forget I said that-you've never been deliberately cruel.

He was forced to be deliberately cruel to Tammy in order to get her off the boat.