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

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

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

But even though the wild hunt has commenced, there’s still a lot more occult savagery to come.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 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