cruelty

The townspeople tell him disturbing stories of cruelty — all at the hands of his own father.

Masochists have like sadists also been the victims of cruelty.

Our attention is drawn only to our discords, our spitefulness and our cruelty.

The child if they are fortunate has no sense of the fragility of everything and of the cruelty waiting in the wings.

And each one has stories to share of Juan’s callous, landowning father, who wreaked havoc through cruelty and violence and then left the town to perish.