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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In the face of tragedy and crisis and inequality and barbarity, artists make work.
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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
Numerous political leaders were prosecuted for barbarities in the Balkans and Rwanda, but those tribunals were established by the Security Council, where Russia has a veto.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024
Fanon persists in the activist imagination as a kind of radical soothsayer, an intellectual who can speak authoritatively about our moment because of his identity as a Black man and colonial subject who personally experienced the barbarity of a colonizing power.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 June 2024
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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
Numerous political leaders were prosecuted for barbarities in the Balkans and Rwanda, but those tribunals were established by the Security Council, where Russia has a veto.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024
Fanon persists in the activist imagination as a kind of radical soothsayer, an intellectual who can speak authoritatively about our moment because of his identity as a Black man and colonial subject who personally experienced the barbarity of a colonizing power.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 June 2024
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“Barbarity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbarity. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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