cruelly (adv.)
- abominably
- agonizingly
- atrociously
- awfully
- baldly
- balefully
- barbarously
- bestially
- bitterly
- blatantly
- brashly
- brutally
- brutishly
- confoundedly
- damnably
- deadly
- deathly
- deucedly
- devilishly
- diabolically
- distressingly
- dreadfully
- excessively
- excruciatingly
- exorbitantly
- extravagantly
- ferociously
- fiendishly
- fiercely
- flagrantly
- frightfully
- grievously
- harshly
- heartlessly
- hellishly
- horribly
- improperly
- inexcusably
- inexorably
- infernally
- inhumanely
- inordinately
- intolerably
- lamentably
- mercilessly
- miserably
- nakedly
- openly
- painfully
- piteously
- pitilessly
- relentlessly
- remorselessly
- ruthlessly
- sadly
- savagely
- shockingly
- sorely
- staggeringly
- terribly
- torturously
- truculently
- unashamedly
- unbearably
- unduly
- unforgivingly
- unmercifully
- unpardonably
- unsympathetically
- viciously
- woefully
- wolfishly
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!