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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Examples of barbarity in a Sentence
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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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.
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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
The recent execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith demonstrates this barbarity.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
The barbarity and brutality of the Hamas attack is barely mentioned in world news, save for certain American media coverage.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024
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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
The recent execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith demonstrates this barbarity.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
The barbarity and brutality of the Hamas attack is barely mentioned in world news, save for certain American media coverage.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024
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“Barbarity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbarity. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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