brutality

[Bru*talĀ·i*ty]

Brutality is extreme cruelty, deliberate violent meanness. Avoid being the giver or receiver of brutality if you wish to remain a happy human.

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The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

Noun
a brutal barbarous savage act

Noun
the trait of extreme cruelty


n.
The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

n.
An inhuman act.


Brutality

Bru*tal"i*ty , n.; pl. Brutalities . [Cf. F. brutalit'82.] 1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness. 2. An inhuman act.
The . . . brutalities exercised in war.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

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Usage Examples

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

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Other Usage Examples

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

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