Was heißt »Grau­sam­keit« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Die Grausamkeit der Folter in der Polizeiwache ist unbeschreiblich.

The cruelty of the torture in the police station is beyond description.

Es ist wegen seiner Grausamkeit, dass ich ihn nicht mag.

It is because he is cruel that I dislike him.

Ich lehne Grausamkeit ab, selbst anderen Menschen gegenüber, und sähe es daher gern, wenn die grausamen Menschen allesamt ausgerottet würden.

I dislike cruelty, even cruelty to other people, and should therefore like to see all cruel people exterminated.

Wenn ein Mensch einen Tiger tötet, spricht man von Sport. Wenn ein Tiger einen Menschen tötet, ist das Grausamkeit.

If a man kills a tiger, they say it's sport. If a tiger kills a man, they say it's brutality.

Er wurde mit großer Grausamkeit behandelt.

He was treated with great cruelty.

Der Russische Zar Iwan der Schreckliche wurde wegen seiner Grausamkeit „Wassiljewitsch“ genannt.

The Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible was nicknamed Vasilievich for his cruelty.

Man schreibe nicht sofort Boshaftigkeit und Grausamkeit zu, was in weniger kriminellen Motiven Erklärung findet. Denn setzt man anderen nicht oft zu, ohne dass man es gewollt hätte, und versäumt es nicht aus bloßer Unachtsamkeit, Leid zu lindern?

Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives. Do we not often afflict others undesignedly, and, from mere carelessness, neglect to relieve distress?

Synonyme

Bar­ba­rei:

barbarity

Bes­ti­a­li­tät:

beastliness

bestiality

Här­te:

hardness

Käl­te:

chill

chilliness

cold

frigidity

Stren­ge:

severity

strictness

Tor­tur:

torture

Un­mensch­lich­keit:

inhumanity

Antonyme

Barm­her­zig­keit:

charity

mercy

tenderheartedness

Freund­lich­keit:

affability

attention

cheerfulness

friendliness

geniality

gentleness

kindlyness

kindness

pleasantness

Mil­de:

benignity

clemency

Englische Beispielsätze

• We live in an age where everything is settled through violence.

• There's no need to resort to violence.

• For violence and insults surround us all, and usually turn against those who have given rise to them.

• What does violence mean?

• We learned violence from you.

• Drink leads to violence and poverty and destroys families.

• Violence begets violence.

• Female mayors are more than twice as likely as males to experience psychological abuse and almost three times as likely to experience physical violence.

• Do you want to provoke a new outbreak of violence?

• Can one justify the use of violence?

• Do they want to cause a new outbreak of violence?

• Do you want to cause a new outbreak of violence?

• I fear neither his violence nor his weapons.

• Tom resolved the situation without resorting to violence.

• The police officer resolved the situation without resorting to violence.

• Tom was charged with domestic violence after he tossed a biscuit at Mary.

• There's too much violence for me.

• Pollution kills more people around the world every year than war and violence.

• "Any delay in arresting the assassin," I observed, "might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity."

• One doesn't convince through violence.