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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

“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

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

Indignant at this act of barbarity, Ketteler threw up his governmental position.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)




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