barbarity
Example Sentences
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"No one cares about us", Najdi lamented, calling on "everyone who can to exert pressure to stop this barbarity".
From Barron's
"It is within our power to stop the war, to stop the barbarity, and to win rights," she said.
From Barron's
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
