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Synonyms for brutality
bruˈtæl ɪ tibru·tal·i·ty
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
brutality
Synonyms:
barbarity, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, selfishness, stinginess, unkindnessAntonyms:
almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, bounty, charity, generosity, good-will, humanity, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishness
Princeton's WordNet
ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagerynoun
the trait of extreme cruelty
Synonyms:
barbarity, savagery, barbarism, savageness, viciousness, ferociousnessbrutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagerynoun
a brutal barbarous savage act
Synonyms:
atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, savageness, viciousness, barbarism, heinousness, barbarity, savagery, ferociousness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
brutalitynoun
Synonyms:
savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
brutalitynoun
Synonyms:
inhumanity, cruelty, truculence
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#256159 | stinginess |
How to use brutality in a sentence?
You know in this neighborhood you've seen a lot of police brutality to the point where we're just fed up.
Today, the nations of Britain, France, and the United States of America have marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality.
In the era of Facebook Live and smart phones, it’s hard to come to any conclusion other than the fact that police brutality toward African-Americans is a pervasive problem that has been going on for generations. Seriously, absent video proof, how many innocent African-Americans have been beaten or killed over the last hundred years by the police—with little or no media coverage or scrutiny?
People look at the story completely different than they might have looked at the story two years ago, it's hard to say that these are just a group of militant radicals that hated the police. You see much more clearly that they had a point about police brutality. They were saying if nobody else will help the community, then we'll do it.
The Iranian government needs to end its systemic persecution of women and allow peaceful protest. The United States will continue to voice our support for human rights in Iran and hold those who violate them to account, mahsa Amini was a courageous woman whose death in Morality Police custody was yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime’s security forces against its own people.
Translations for brutality
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- brutalitaCzech
- BrutalitätGerman
- αγριότηταGreek
- brutalidadSpanish
- brutalitéFrench
- brúidiúlachtIrish
- brùidealachdScottish Gaelic
- brutalidadeGalician
- BrutalitéitLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- wreedheidDutch
- brutalnośćPolish
- жестокость, зверствоRussian
- брута́лно̄ст, brutálnōstSerbo-Croatian
- brutalitetSwedish
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