savagery
savagery
Definition
sav·agery (-rē)
noun pl. -·ries
- the condition of being savage, or wild, primitive, uncultivated, etc.
- savage act, behavior, or disposition; barbarity
savagery
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- war: All the savagery of Vietnam-era wars against civilians, only this time they have much better control of the press.
- attack: The savagery of the attack immediately steered police to search for fanatics of some kind.
- policy: The capricious savagery of sentencing policy made routine victims of the poor.
- murder: It was the unique purposelessness and savagery of the murder which had frightened and frustrated the whole community.
- battle: The savagery of battle pauses briefly to allow the snatched happiness of the wedding before the desperate flight from anger and betrayal.
Converse of object
- give: Defense scientists also suggested that given the savagery of the attack there would have been fragments of brain and body tissue on his clothing.
- escape: Hares that escape the savagery may die later, from sheer shock and terror.
- have: Not cover people and doesn't have very active children savagery in the.
Adjective modifier
- such: He couldn't believe the British were capable of such savagery.
- primitive: However this does not mean that these countries have lapsed into social barbarism and reverted to their supposedly natural state of primitive savagery.
- human: The Tsunami disaster, unlike this act of human savagery, has received a great deal of coverage in the Western press.
- capricious: The capricious savagery of sentencing policy made routine victims of the poor.
- brutal: They drove thousands of men and women and children with brutal savagery into slavery in foreign lands.
- sheer: All the Ripper murders were unambiguous for their sheer savagery.
