barbarity
noun
bar·bar·i·ty
bär-ˈber-ə-tē 
-ˈba-rə-
plural barbarities
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a
: barbarous cruelty : inhumanity
b
: an act or instance of such cruelty
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The barbarity of the attack was horrifying.
The photos vividly capture the war's barbarity.
He is accused of inflicting unimaginable barbarities on his own people.
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Guillén’s 2017 caricature shows Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro clubbing a woman representing democracy to a bloody pulp, the way his security forces were savaging pro-democracy demonstrators that year — barbarity a U.N. report designated as crimes against humanity.
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Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
Israel has also tried highlighting Hamas’s barbarity, including by screening its own supercut of the October 7 massacre for select audiences, including groups in the United States.
—P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
In the face of tragedy and crisis and inequality and barbarity, artists make work.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Italy’s solitary-confinement policy—a regulation called carcere duro, or hard prison—is controversial in northern Europe, where it is seen as an example of southern barbarity.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
Israel has also tried highlighting Hamas’s barbarity, including by screening its own supercut of the October 7 massacre for select audiences, including groups in the United States.
—P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
In the face of tragedy and crisis and inequality and barbarity, artists make work.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Italy’s solitary-confinement policy—a regulation called carcere duro, or hard prison—is controversial in northern Europe, where it is seen as an example of southern barbarity.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Barbarity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbarity. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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