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How to pronounce barbarity in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness
Type of inhumaneness, inhumanity
Type Words
Synonyms barbarism, brutality, savagery
Type of atrocity, inhumanity
Derivation barbaric

Examples of barbarity

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Such unchecked barbarity, and brutality should never be allowed to happen again.
From the latimes.com
The invasion, and subsequent occupation, was carried out with extreme barbarity.
From the guardian.co.uk
Even Japanese records acknowledge the systematic cruelty and barbarity in Harbin.
From the economist.com
The fact that the punishment isn't really a deterrent, and the barbarity of it.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The barbarity with which these rebellions were invariably put down was staggering.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
As a Christian, I don't think that we have to combat barbarity with more savagery.
From the time.com
It is synonymous to barbarity, impoliteness, insolence, unmanrliness and impudence.
From the en.wikipedia.org
To suddenly be engulfed in flames and barbarity was the shattering of their ideals.
From the guardian.co.uk
We live in a nation in which barbarity and cruelty has gained mainstream acceptance.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
More examples
  • Atrocity: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
  • Brutality: a brutal barbarous savage act
  • (barbarous) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
  • (barbarous) primitive in customs and culture
  • A barbarian is an uncivilized person. The word is often used pejoratively, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage. ...
  • (barbarous) Not classical or pure; uncivilized, uncultured; Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant
  • (barbarous) Foreigner, to the Romans, anyone outside the Roman empire.