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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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GTA III in 2001 was a naughty revelation—a first-person, three-dimensional, open world of beauty and barbarity.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

Earlier Mr Macron visited the school and condemned the "barbarity of Islamist terrorism".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

He isn't merely tormented by the barbarity of vampirism, which he refuses to indulge as far as that goes.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2022

The Duke, who was entitled to sympathy from the successive death of his sons, accused those who had taken the last from him of barbarity.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

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

General Sickles, as he had been instructed, made a solemn protest against the barbarities perpetrated at Santiago.

From Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future by Arthur D. Hall




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