Synonyms for brutality
bruˈtæl ɪ tibru·tal·i·ty

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1. brutality

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, selfishness, stinginess, unkindness

   Antonyms:
   almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, bounty, charity, generosity, good-will, humanity, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishness

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1. ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagerynoun

   the trait of extreme cruelty

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, savagery, barbarism, savageness, viciousness, ferociousness

2. brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagerynoun

   a brutal barbarous savage act

   Synonyms:
   atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, savageness, viciousness, barbarism, heinousness, barbarity, savagery, ferociousness

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1. • Atrocity

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1. brutalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart

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1. brutalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   inhumanity, cruelty, truculence

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1. List of paraphrases for "brutality":

   cruelty, barbarity, savagery, bestiality, savage, barbarism, barbaric, abuse, bullying, brutal, violence, molestation

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1. Quentin Tarantino:

   I love my son and have great respect for him as an artist but he is dead wrong in calling police officers, particularly in New York City where I grew up, murderers, he is a passionate man and that comes out in his art but sometimes he lets his passion blind him to the facts and to reality. I believe that is what happened when he joined in those anti-cop protests. Quentin Tarantino was speaking at a rally protesting police brutality when he said : This is not being dealt with in any way at all. That's why we are out here. If it was being dealt with, then these murdering cops would be in jail or at least be facing charges. When I see murders, I do not stand by, Quentin Tarantino added. I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers. Quentin Tarantino made his comments just days after a New York City police officer was killed in the line if duty. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said he appreciated Tony Tarantino's comments.

2. Benjamin Taylor:

   Mr. Johnson did not put himself in this light. The Mesa( police department) put himself in this light. He did not ask to be the face of police brutality, one of the faces of police brutality.

3. Lloyd Austin:

   Well, certainly we’ve all been shocked by the brutality that we continue to witness day in and day out, these attacks that we’ve seen most recently appear to be focused directly on civilians.

4. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop:

   They are criminal thugs who have been carrying out brutal terrorist attacks, putting people's lives in danger, they boast of the brutality and violence they have been meting out to people, they boast of having sexual slaves.

5. Jose Miguel Vivanco:

   We are deeply concerned by the images of instances of police brutality coming out of Chile, president Sebastian Pinera should make clear to Chilean security forces that they need to respect human rights and ensure that agents implicated in abuses are promptly and impartially investigated.