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brutality

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bru·tal·i·ty  (br-tl-t)
n. pl. bru·tal·i·ties
1. The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.
2. A ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting act.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.brutalitybrutality - the trait of extreme cruelty        
ferociousness, viciousness, savagery
cruelness, cruelty, harshness - the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
2.brutality - a brutal barbarous savage act
barbarism, barbarity, savagery
atrocity, inhumanity - an act of atrocious cruelty
brutality
noun cruelty, atrocity, ferocity, savagery, ruthlessness, barbarism, inhumanity, barbarity, viciousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, savageness Her experience of men was of domination and brutality.
Translations
brutality [bruːˈtælɪtɪ] N [of person] → brutalidad f; [of murder] → salvajismo m, crueldad f
see also police B
brutality [bruːˈtælɪti]
n (= cruelty) [regime, murder] → brutalité f brutalities
npl (= cruel acts) → sévices mpl
the brutalities committed by them → les sévices qu'ils ont perpétrés
brutality
n → Brutalität f
brutality [bruːˈtælɪtɪ] n → brutalità
brutality [bruːˈtælɪtɪ] n → brutalità


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Practically all of us will weep red tears and sweat bloody sweats as we come to knowledge of the unavoidable cruelty and brutality on which the trained-animal world rests and has its being.
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She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to took upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.
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It was the beautiful young Frisian, who, seeing her father stretched on the ground, and the prisoner bending over him, uttered a faint cry, as in the first fright she thought Gryphus, whose brutality she well knew, had fallen in consequence of a struggle between him and the prisoner.
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