What is "crueller"

Usage examples of "crueller".

He had the same choices as you, but where you used your crueller nature to a good end, he allowed himself to be consumed by his.

Yet, from what I have seen of the world since that time, I now understand that they are no crueller than any other lowlander.

I had got my own mind back, the house seemed crueller than ever, and I saw how far I had sunk before in growing used to it.

I was then armed against a crueller, that allows of no interval for a man to make his vow to recover!

If you fail after that, not all the spawn of the Void will seem a crueller fate.

Ma Foster had been told what crueller men would do to her if she should speak too much.

At twenty-eight, living off book reviews and social security, pale and thin and interestingly dissolute, most typically to be seen wearing a col-larless white shirt and jeans tucked into misshapen brown bootslooking like the kind of ex-public-schoolboy who, perhaps, did some drug-impaired carpentering or gardening for the good and the great with his fiery politics and his riveting love affairs in which he was usually the crueller, Richard Tull published his first novel, Aforethought, in Britain and America.

Stephen mounted: out of the grove there was more wind now, more wind by far, right in their faces, and the road climbed, winding and for ever rising with tall, very tall, many branched columnal cactuses on either hand and little else apart from smaller cactuses with even crueller thorns.

He had seen battles, too, in his time in the world, as far afield as Acre and Ascalon and Jerusalem in the first Crusade, and witnessed deaths crueller than disease, and heathen kinder than Christians, and he knew of leprosies of the heart and ulcers of the soul worse than any of these he poulticed and lanced with his herbal medicines.

Now, 'pull the other one, it's got bells on', he'd heard of - it stemmed from the days of a crueller than usual ruler in Ankh-Morpork who had had any Morris dancers ritually tortured.