noun

• Savage physical violence; great cruelty.

  ‘brutality against civilians’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I don't think he was exposed to enough of their atrocities and enough of their brutalities to understand what he really was getting involved in.’
  • ‘The images of abuse and brutality he records are horrifyingly familiar.’
  • ‘Gone are the times when tensions would erupt in a blizzard of savage brutality.’
  • ‘The shock of inhuman brutality was sufficient to traumatize the inhabitants into submission.’
  • ‘It was a clearly planned killing with murderous intent executed with brutality and determination.’

  Synonyms

  savagery, cruelty, bloodthirstiness, viciousness, ferocity, barbarity, wickedness, murderousness, cold-bloodedness, hard-heartedness, harshness

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