barbarity - use in sentences

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

  • condemn: It is not just for reasons of home town loyalty, however, that the column declines to condemn such barbarity.
  • 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.

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