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Brutality   /brutˈæləti/  /brutˈælɪti/   Listen
noun
Brutality  n.  (pl. brutalities)  
1.
The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
2.
An inhuman act. "The... brutalities exercised in war."





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"Brutality" Quotes from Famous Books



... soon took a more serious turn; for she began, with great bitterness, to inveigh against the barbarous brutality of that fellow the Captain, and the horrible ill-breeding of the English in general, declaring, she should make her escape with all expedition from so beastly a nation. But nothing can be more strangely absurd, than to hear politeness recommended ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney
... accordance with it. If I had left my vegetables and weeds to a free fight, in which the strongest specimens only should come to maturity, and the weaker go to the wall, I can clearly see that I should have had a pretty mess of it. It would have been a scene of passion and license and brutality. The "pusley" would have strangled the strawberry; the upright corn, which has now ears to hear the guilty beating of the hearts of the children who steal the raspberries, would have been dragged to the earth by the wandering bean; the snake-grass would ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... imposed upon you." But though he made a valiant effort to keep up with their captors he occasionally lagged, and upon one such occasion the guards for the first time showed any disposition toward brutality. ...
— Tarzan the Untamed • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... old place, fiercer than ever for the fight, and inflamed with an unappeasable hatred of the religion whose guardians prefer punishment to persuasion, and supplement the weakness of argument by the force of brutality. ...
— Prisoner for Blasphemy • G. W. [George William] Foote
... almost hardened to the German method of making war on the civil population—that system of striving to act upon civilian "nerves" by calculated brutality which is summed up in the word "frightfulness". But the publication of these figures awoke some of the old horror of German warfare. The sum total of lives lost brought home to the people at home the fact that bombardment from air and sea, while it ...
— The Mastery of the Air • William J. Claxton


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