barbarity
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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
“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
"What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors charge La Liga? Don't the televisions bother to broadcast this barbarity every weekend?" he said.
From BBC ● May 22, 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 palace, though lovingly repaired and tended by Mr. Reid, is but the wreck of itself, having suffered sorely not only by the waste of time, but also by cruel barbarity in the last century.
From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.
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
In fact, wherever the Ashantis had been, grim relics were left behind, all of which only added to the keenness of our men to reach Kumasi and put a stop to such barbarities.
From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
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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