Modifying Another Word

• particularly: Will they be eaten by parasites, or killed by a particularly savage frost?

• sometimes: We also spoke to sometimes savage PAs in an attempt to gain direct access to our targets.

• almost: He dealt about his blows with almost savage violence.

• often: The cumulative effect of the stories is made all the more brutal for the primitive and often savage masculine code of ethics which prevails.

Adjective modifier

• noble: No ' noble savage ' he, the tasks he prescribes for Jason amount to a death sentence.

• ignorant: No, the government thinks it can do things best without us ignorant savages butting in.

• primitive: It is precisely the elemental god of Browning's Caliban, and of the primitive savage!

• naked: My image of Africa, at that time, was of naked savages, cannibals, monkeys and tigers and steaming jungles.

• most: He even managed to avoid Karelin's most savage throw, a reverse body lift.

Modifies a noun

• beating: What can we do in terms of a code of conduct to stop you from getting a savage beating?

• beast: His sensitive harmony singing managed to soothe the savage beast for the next turn.

• indictment: The Seven Deadly Sins was a savage indictment of the society around him.

• wolf: The bible talks about " savage wolves " who " will not spare the flock " .

• satire: Comedy doesn't get much blacker than this savage satire on terrorism.

• repression: The savage repression of local populations usually did enough to put people off of joining any local resistance force.