barbarity
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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
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said President Vladimir Putin's "cowardice and barbarity" would not prevail.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024
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
Whatever barbarity the ancients may have shown in preparing their dainty dishes, none could have surpassed in refinement of cruelty.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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
Thus twenty years had been wasted, the best blood of Germany squandered, the worst barbarities of war renewed, and Frederick, after enduring shame and humiliation, had not attained one of his haughty personal aims.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard
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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