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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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GTA III in 2001 was a naughty revelation—a first-person, three-dimensional, open world of beauty and barbarity.

From Barron's • May 21, 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

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

Before going they all regard bull-fighting as you do, as an atrocity, a barbarity, but invariably they return from the Plaza de Toros filled with delight and admiration.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee




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