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Meanings of barbarism in English
Synonyms
Examples for "brutality"
Examples for "brutality"
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EBONY: New cases of police brutality appear in the news every day.
2
The demonstrators see the case in terms of racism and police brutality.
3
Ratu Inoke said nine cases of police brutality were reported in 2017.
4
The issue isn't police reform, British army brutality or even punishment beatings.
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The video prompted a national debate on police brutality and race relations.
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Nothing worse in Central America; nothing worse where civilized degeneracy disgraces savagery.
2
The grave emotion in his face dignified its expression despite its savagery.
3
The soldiers rush in and avenge his death with the utmost savagery.
4
The red glare of savagery flickered for an instant in his eyes.
5
Never had he put the savagery in it that was there to-night.
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The Indian alone in his wild and merciless barbarity, was terrible enough.
2
Here is a most extraordinary trait of the barbarity of the Tibboos.
3
They are each set in a world of toil, threat and barbarity.
4
They are said to be dull in everything but treachery and barbarity.
5
If so, the author of that accusation was responsible for the barbarity.
Usage of barbarism in English
1
They have simply grown and developed in the natural plane of barbarism.
2
The boasted progress of civilization is dissolved in the barbarism of war.
3
Capital punishment exists at a paradoxical junction point of civilisation and barbarism.
4
But in the century succeeding his death the country relapsed into barbarism.
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Feudality was the natural first step of a people emerging from barbarism.
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Superstition and barbarism shared the honour and the spoils of this victory.
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The last hopes of barbarism had passed with the shades of night.
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The barbarism of these proposals was covered by the fig-leaf of enlightenment.
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But execution was too easy, and Paul had had enough of barbarism.
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But it's moving directly from barbarism to decadence without ever encountering civilization.
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Your civilization is your disease; my barbarism is my restoration to health.
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Some relic of ancient African barbarism still lingered in their untutored minds.
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Such the difference between physical and moral courage, between barbarism and civilization.
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The real issue is between civilization and barbarism, between peace and war.
15
Shakespeare has been sometimes taxed with the barbarism of profuseness and exaggeration.
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Born in Asiatic filth, ignorance and barbarism, it now menaces modern civilization.
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Translations for barbarism
Portuguese
Russian
Barbarism through the time
Barbarism across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common