Crossword clues for brutalities
brutalities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brutality \Bru*tal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Brutalities. [Cf. F. brutalit['e].]
The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
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An inhuman act.
The . . . brutalities exercised in war.
--Brougham.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of brutality English)
Usage examples of "brutalities".
To give their brutalities the semblance of right, they improvise two pompous demonstrations, first, the sudden manufacture of a paper constitution, which molders away in their archives, and next, the scandalous farce of a hollow and compulsory plebiscite.
We have begun to repay the Japanese for their brutalities and their mass murders of helpless civilians and prisoners of war.
More and more German Jews, he said, were suffering from 'flight motif, but it was his opinion that Nazi brutalities were diminishing and that a young girl should consider how extremely unpleasant it was to be a refugee.
Ion and Lexandru Zirescu had grown up with Radu, or rather he had grown up suffering their constant brutalities - but no more or less than the rest of the tribe suffered under Giorga and his sons.
All his life he'd known the brutalities of his 'brother' men, and for all he knew it would be the same in any tribe as it had been with the Szgany Zirescu.
The entire hive protected the bee against the caprices of favoritism and the brutalities of despotism.
The hunger, the cold, the damp, the overwork, and the constant brutalities had whittled my formerly strong frame down to a mass of skin and bones.
I watched the brutalities of Roschmann and his fellow SS men without batting an eyelid.
One recorded that three SS privates had gone on trial for brutalities committed at Riga between 1941 and 1944.
Though she had to be nimble to avoid the brutalities on every side, she reached the vicinity of the rock without harm.
With mixed crews, recruited from every nation, they scoured the seas, disappearing occasionally to careen in some lonely inlet, or putting in for a debauch at some outlying port, where they dazzled the inhabitants by their lavishness, and horrified them by their brutalities.
And an old man who knew death from the brutalities of war and who insisted on seeing the bereaved husband and father—he was accompanied by a woman in a nurse’s uniform, properly topped by a hat and a dark mourning veil.