savagery
Example Sentences
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Despite Dee’s savagery, Blyth portrays Taylor’s cellmate as loyal and honest — someone who believes in a personal code of conduct.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
Septimius Severus was capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
It was hard to look at the savagery of, for example, Selma—as most Americans did, in photographs and on television—and not see what was wrong.
From Slate • May 19, 2025
That savagery had already reared up in social media spaces before the pandemic fertilized it, but knowing it was already present doesn’t lessen the shock of experiencing versions of it in face-to-face interactions.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025
Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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