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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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"It is within our power to stop the war, to stop the barbarity, and to win rights," she said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

"What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors charge La Liga? Don't the televisions bother to broadcast this barbarity every weekend?" he said.

From BBC ● May 22, 2023

The Empire is ... crucially, subjects that go about their daily lives ignoring or enthusiastically supporting barbarity in the name of law and order, out of fear or simply for personal gain.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022

"Then that is the reason, I suppose, that you had the barbarity to propose a long journey to me only a day or two after our marriage," interrupted Madame de Luceval, in reproachful tones.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Eug?ne Sue

Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

"Quino built the story with very human characters through the eyes of children, who say terrible barbarities with no filter," series director Lorena Munoz told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023

Exceptions include the veteran British graphic artist Sue Coe, who finds focus for her classic Expressionism and her lifelong sorrow and anger at human barbarities.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019

When we see people fighting against those barbarities, that is part and parcel of America too.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2019

It has been thus briefly ventilated here solely to trace the genesis of the bitterness of that war, and of numerous later barbarities avenged in kind.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount




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