barbarity

Preposition: of

• war: In her search for the truth she uncovers the humiliation meted out to deserters and the barbarity of war.
• slaughter: Every year in Britain, more than 850 million animals face the barbarity of slaughter, many fully conscious.
• capitalism: The barbarity of capitalism was unleashed in a way previously undreamt of; millions of lives were lost, millions more wrecked forever.
• century: This is obviously what causes some today to speak of the barbarity of the century.
• life: The barbarity of life in the State Prison was beyond credibility.

Converse of object

• commit: In 1929, the Soviets invaded part of China and massacred Russian exiles there, committing the most atrocious barbarities.
• condemn: It is not just for reasons of home town loyalty, however, that the column declines to condemn such barbarity.
• allow: They allowed barbarities to be practiced against their prisoners of war from which the most uncivilized people would have recoiled.
• sanction: Since when did Jesus tell us to collude even unwittingly with state sanctioned barbarity.
• justify: As the anniversary of VJ Day approaches, the Western ruling classes are keen to justify this barbarity.

Adjective modifier

• such: Few people posed the question of whether we should be handing out such barbarity to beasts.
• Nazi: The site would be used to remind future generations of Nazi barbarity.
• shocking: Failing to do so, the family were carried off to Al-Kufa, and treated with shocking barbarity.
• great: Of course, war itself is a great barbarity, and all Socialists are bent upon its extermination.
• unparalleled: By contrast, the failures of the left in Germany allowed the Nazi Party to establish a regime of unparalleled barbarity.
• horrible: The settlement's chaplain reported " instances, many instances, of horrible barbarity " against the slaves.