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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

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said President Vladimir Putin's "cowardice and barbarity" would not prevail.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2024

“If we cannot stand up to call it what it is — a monstrous act of barbarity — then we have lost the plot.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 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

We shall then agitate anew, and endeavor, through public meetings and the press, to exhibit the barbarity of refusing their humble request.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old




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