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mental cruelty noun
n [U] Definition
behaviour that causes extreme unhappiness to another person but which does not involve physical violence
She divorced her husband on the grounds of mental cruelty.
(Definition of mental cruelty noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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