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ザンコク
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Noun
1. cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
Children are innocent and cruel.
Alt. forms
残ざん酷こく
98%
惨ざん酷こく
ザンコク
残ざん刻こく
惨ざん刻こく
Pitch accent
ザ
ンコク
Used in: 12
Composed of
remainder; the rest; what is left
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
inhumanity; atrocity; abominable cruelty
live broiling of shellfish
Examples (23 in total)
Children are innocent and cruel.
Destiny is sometimes cruel.
The answer is brutally obvious.
Don't be cruel to animals.
He attacked more savagely than a tiger.
Because the world was so beautiful, its cruelty stood out all the more.
The slaves suffered cruel oppression.
It's a perfect example of cruel fate.
The cruelty of the torture in the police station is beyond description.
It is cruel of him to say such things to her.
What spread out before my eyes was a world that was both beautiful and cruel.
It's shameful to treat a child so cruelly.
Cruelty is quite alien to his nature.
There was once a cruel ruler in the country.
It is said that sound argument is beautiful and sometimes cruel.
The cruel man beat the dog with a whip.
I never thought he was capable of doing something so cruel.
Can a child do such a cruel thing?
I could not image how cruel he was at that time.
It is cruel of them to make the boy work so hard.
I think it is cruel to trap animals for fur coats.
Eventually the cruel man was sentenced to jail.
An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.