barbarity
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Ms. Elkayam-Levy is a hero who has given voice to the Israeli victims of Hamas’s barbarity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said President Vladimir Putin's "cowardice and barbarity" would not prevail.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024
“If we cannot stand up to call it what it is — a monstrous act of barbarity — then we have lost the plot.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
By his noble and generous conduct Perry won the esteem and love of his enemies, while Proctor by his unfeeling neglect and barbarity received the curse of all honorable men.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
"Quino built the story with very human characters through the eyes of children, who say terrible barbarities with no filter," series director Lorena Munoz told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023
Exceptions include the veteran British graphic artist Sue Coe, who finds focus for her classic Expressionism and her lifelong sorrow and anger at human barbarities.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
When we see people fighting against those barbarities, that is part and parcel of America too.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2019
The danger to which the man exposed himself, to a certain extent atoned for the barbarities inflicted on the bull.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
Vocabulary lists containing barbarity
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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"Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife," Vocabulary from the literary criticism
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"The Iliad" by Homer, Book 22
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