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barbarousness

noun as in atrociousness

noun as in atrocity

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Example Sentences

He’s gone so far through barbarousness and savagery that he’s come out the other end.

Now, thanks to a mother’s determination to expose the barbarousness of the crime, the public could no longer pretend to ignore what they couldn’t see.

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The eerie beauty of obsolete medicine captivates us because it lays bare the barbarousness of the healing arts.

A British major, T J Leonard, even said the fairy tales had helped Germans teach their children "all the varieties of barbarousness", making it easy for them to fit into the "role of the hangman".

The tales spread abroad of his "barbarousness and inhumanity" caused him real annoyance, and he endeavoured to refute them in a published "Declaration."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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