barbarity
Example Sentences
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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
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
The Empire is ... crucially, subjects that go about their daily lives ignoring or enthusiastically supporting barbarity in the name of law and order, out of fear or simply for personal gain.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2022
Its wanton barbarity was only emphasized by the fact that it was celebrated on Broadway, in the greatest city of what we are pleased to admit is the most civilized nation in the world.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
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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