barbarity
Example Sentences
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But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."
From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025
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
He isn't merely tormented by the barbarity of vampirism, which he refuses to indulge as far as that goes.
From Salon • Nov. 13, 2022
"When nature," said he, "has abandoned an unhappy victim, when a miracle only can save his life, how can you have the barbarity to let him expire on the wheel?"
From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland
Vocabulary lists containing barbarity
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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"Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife," Vocabulary from the literary criticism
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"The Iliad" by Homer, Book 22
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