Meanings of great brutality in English

We know from unofficial accounts that these risings were suppressed with great brutality.

He conducted the war with great brutality, burning private as well as public property.

He caught her with ease, and proceeded to bind her hands with great brutality.

He and his companions were killed with great brutality.

Kaled executed his commission with great brutality.

In some instances persons thus seized were hung up by the neck, or otherwise treated with great brutality.

He was murdered, with circumstances of great brutality, by the infamous Caracalla, almost immediately after his accession to sole power.

Perhaps I commit a great brutality in this manner, for perhaps you are in need of being cheered up by me.

Few pleasures are either very refined or very coarse; and highly polished manners are as uncommon as great brutality of tastes.

They had been treated with great brutality by the Boers, having been flogged to the station and robbed of their wages.

Upon the other hand, some of the prisoners were found to have been all but starved, and treated with great brutality.

While other parts of Europe are shunning refugees, sometimes with great brutality, Junk is delivering an alternative message: bring on the immigrants.

A conspiracy was formed against the Russian emperor, headed by his wife whom he had treated with great brutality, and Paul III.

Soon after his confinement, Mrs. Bradley petitioned Tarleton to liberate her husband, but he treated her with scurrilous language and great brutality.

The Kentucky men, accustomed only to warfare against Indians, had no idea of the usages of war and treated the prisoners with great brutality.

The Romans continued the tradition with still greater brutality.