Brutality
[brʊ'tælɪtɪ] or [brʊ'tæləti]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
(n.) An inhuman act.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.
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Examples
- You can't bear to realise what a stock, stiff, hide-bound brutality you ARE really, so you say it's the world of art. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No, Graham: I should never have patiently endured brutality. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There was something hidden, beyond a doubt, under the mere surface-brutality of the words which her husband had just addressed to her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There are women of a stupidity and brutality that is insupportable. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Our system is educating them in barbarism and brutality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is your respectability and humanity that licenses and protects his brutality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- At first the Indians were enslaved with much brutality and injustice; but to the honour of the Spaniards this did not go uncriticized. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The man was small and rather old, so that the brutality of the act was thus accentuated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I was very much concerned for his misfortunes, and felt that any recognition short of ninepence would be mere brutality and hardness of heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I am half resolved to go to the Grand Master, abjure the Order to his very teeth, and refuse to act the brutality which his tyranny has imposed on me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Not very dear, however, when you deserted him in his infancy, and left him to the brutality of a drunken grandmother. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The brutality of the thrust gave her the sense of dizziness that follows on a physical blow. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Who knows but what we might be better employed putting the town into a state of defense than massacring people with this slowness and brutality. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When he first bought her, she was, as she said, a woman delicately bred; and then he crushed her, without scruple, beneath the foot of his brutality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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