as in cruelty
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others
more than one reluctant dental patient has been tempted to level the charge of barbarity against their dentist
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The recent execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith demonstrates this barbarity.
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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
The Klansmen returned his canvases too, this time in play-school pinks and blues, performing pleasantries instead of barbarities: driving, smoking, socializing and — tellingly — painting at easels.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 June 2024
But there are few other films before or since that have revealed the sheer physical barbarity and psychotropic horror of warfare.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024
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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
The Klansmen returned his canvases too, this time in play-school pinks and blues, performing pleasantries instead of barbarities: driving, smoking, socializing and — tellingly — painting at easels.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 June 2024
But there are few other films before or since that have revealed the sheer physical barbarity and psychotropic horror of warfare.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024
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