barbarity
Example Sentences
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Having fashioned a creature from dead body parts, the scientist recoils from the result, which appears to him to be a monster of “unparalleled barbarity,” and abandons his construction.
The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.
From Los Angeles Times
"The comedy of manners plays with the mores of civilization; it can lose its charm when civilisation succumbs to barbarity. In life, as in comedy, timing is essential."
From BBC
Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".
From BBC
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
