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savagely
adverb as in cruelly
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Example Sentences
PC Coates felt "the most excruciating pain" and realised he was "savagely biting" her arm.
A bitter, arrogant striver, Walter encouraged his son to act, only to savagely criticize him when he did so, which confused and angered his son.
The wind switched from the practice days, the sunshine of Wednesday was replaced by 20mph winds and persistent rain on Thursday, the course played savagely long, the greens were hard and everything was a grind.
German newspapers, in turn, carried equally exaggerated accounts of German soldiers being savagely mutilated and killed by Belgian townsfolk.
In the words of Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, savagely beaten with a meat hammer in exile in Lithuania last week: "The percentages drawn for Putin have, of course, not the slightest relation to reality."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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