barbarity

Example Sentences

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"Barbarity feeds off antisemitism and spreads it," President Macron said.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

"Here is what Civilisation has done to Barbarity."

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2015

The Barbarity of the Action was represented to Mark Antony, who immediately summoned Herod into Egypt, to answer for the Crime that was there laid to his Charge.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

As his Barbarity was great, so was his Repentance.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

The Falshood to Mrs. Loveit, and the Barbarity of Triumphing over her Anguish for losing him, is another Instance of his Honesty, as well as his Good-nature.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph