barbarity
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"It is within our power to stop the war, to stop the barbarity, and to win rights," she said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said President Vladimir Putin's "cowardice and barbarity" would not prevail.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024
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
But think of the barbarity of all this!
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
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
It was evident that Spain was still ready, if in her opinion occasion required it, to have recourse to the barbarities of the old Inquisitorial days.
From Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future by Arthur D. Hall
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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