savagery


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Synonyms for savagery

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Synonyms for savagery

a cruel act or an instance of cruel behavior

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Synonyms for savagery

the property of being untamed and ferocious

the trait of extreme cruelty

a brutal barbarous savage act

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Even though the ending is known, Max Blumenthal's book The Management of Savagery draws the reader through an intriguing tale of media management, political management, financial management all with the goal of achieving the management of savagery.
Both mother and daughter had several injuries from where they had tried to protect themselves from Boon's "unspeakable savagery", Mrs Justice May said.
"I think this era is leading us to an epoch of modern savagery, in which political language has lost its normalcy and nations are addressed with vile and degrading rhetoric instead of respect," Larijani said.
Published in 2004 by a jihadist who called himself Abu Bakr Naji, the "Savagery" book posits a world in which the superpower halo of the United States has disappeared and the Muslim world within the colonial boundaries known as the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement has descended into chaos -- "savagery," as the author bluntly puts it.
He describes how the cycle of savagery and revenge: Cruel acts become routine as savagery compounds; a group becomes more important than individuals, and insiders demonize individuals.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani in a phone conversation with Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Mashl underlined that the advocacy for the Palestinians or Israel means a a world of difference, from humanity to savagery.
A sheriff branded Alastair Graham's sadistic behaviour "a grotesque act of savagery".
AP reported that about half a million people died in the arduous battles in the flat, often muddy killing grounds in and around the small Belgian city of Ypres in western Flanders between 1914-18, one of the sites that reflected the savagery of what became known as "The Great War."
A FORMER Army officer who killed an estate agent after subjecting her and her colleague to nearly nine hours of brutal attacks has been told he must serve a minimum of 34 years in prison by a judge who said his "savagery" was "almost beyond belief".
He is fostering the loyalty of his generals, their troops and some minority communities in Syria by seeking to show the regime forces as a bulwark against the savagery of the jihadists.
He was notorious for his savagery and butchered other victims with an axe or sword or beat them to death with lead-piping.
The butchering of a soldier with knives and cleavers in the middle of a street in England is not, of course, the only example of savagery perpetrated in the name of Islam.
MANIILA -- Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II on Tueday called the eight police officers killed in an ambush in Cagayan as "heroes of our people" as he condemned the attack as "a kind of savagery."