savagery

Example Sentences

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Few if any of even Kim Jong-un’s looniest tirades match these posts for their wild-eyed savagery.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

As Simon Elliott describes in his biography “The African Emperor,” Severus was a mercurial and contradictory character, capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity, and always blessed with a sense of the theatrical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

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

They’ve always moved between gloss and grime, shimmer and savagery.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

Cloaking his savagery under the banner of civilization, Hale portrayed himself as an American pioneer who had helped forge a nation out of the raw wilderness.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann