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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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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 • Mar. 24, 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

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

Thine is a Bacon, hapless in his choice; Unfit to stand the civil storm of state, And through the smooth barbarity of courts, With firm but pliant virtue, forward still To urge his course.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various




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