What is "cruellest"

Usage examples of "cruellest".

CHAPTER 119 The Candles Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.

Then, in a low hiss, she added that I was the stupidest and cruellest person she had ever met.

This was the cruellest of all wars, and it had already destroyed millions.

So it was that in the course of an extraordinarily short time she found herself as deeply absorbed in the image of the little dead Clara Matilda, who, on a crossing in the Harrow Road, had been knocked down and crushed by the cruellest of hansoms, as she had ever found herself in the family group made vivid by one of seven.

It was his first experience of this cruellest passion: what hitherto had been only a name to him, and of ignoble sound, became a disease clutching at his vitals.

The cruellest thing in the world is to set up a living model before a wife, and compel her to copy it.