as in ruthlessness
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Noun
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Kyle Vigneault, 27, faces charges of first-degree manslaughter, risk of injury to a child and cruelty to persons, according to the Norwalk Police Department.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2025 -
Season 2 Has Answers The Genius of Severance's Grand Central Pop-Up Ben Stiller on Severance's Creator Dan Erickson The thing that ends up giving Helena away is her cruelty.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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First of all, of course, the savagery of the crime.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
26 Nov. 2024
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When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2024
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Presenting inhumanity in a contemporary style that draws us in, Shahn employed color and line to summon the viewer’s full attention.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
6 Jan. 2024
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This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.—
Becca Rothfeld,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
Noun
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The Russian president also encouraged acts of barbarity against his critics.—
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2022
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Angle was just too good, too fast, and too pre-equipped to allow Lesnar to gain a real advantage, meaning that Lesnar had to rely on his powerhouse barbarity to come out on top.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2024
Noun
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Pavlovich’s allegations, like others against Gaiman, often involve acts associated with BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism).—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2025
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To understand why Germans at different levels of society backed Hitler, scholars often cite people’s deep commitment to Nazi ideology; the hatred of Jews, homosexuals, Romani, or Communists; or sheer psychopathic sadism.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Spanning from the 2014 Maidan Revolution to spring 2024, their story blends the glamour of drag with the brutality of war.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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The President has had a complicated history with the NFL, after criticizing players who kneeled during the national anthem in protest of police brutality and racial injustice during his first administration.—
Simmone Shah,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And on the basketball court? Count on the muscular 6-4, 195-pound senior forward to bring the juice and dunk with ferocity for the Foxes, according to freshman guard Braydon Porter.—
Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
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And in this painting, the marbled feel of the satellites lends a kind of molten ferocity—this was a race, after all.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Mercilessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mercilessness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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