Brutality: alternatives and connections

Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

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Cruelty.

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The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.

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The quality or state of being harsh.

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The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.

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Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

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Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

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An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.

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The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

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The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

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