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Examples of brutality in a Sentence
the brutalities of a prison
the police were accused of brutality for using excessive force in making arrests
Recent Examples of brutality from the Web
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In 2016, then-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began protesting police brutality and social injustice by kneeling during the national anthem, and the demonstration spread to other players and teams.
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Players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequity have attracted the wrath of President Donald Trump and his supporters.
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This is just latest episode in a story that began in the summer of 2016, when then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to protest police brutality and racial injustice by taking a knee during the national anthem before games.
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Malcolm Jenkins has been one of the most outspoken people in the NFL on social issues since players started protesting police brutality and racial injustice by making demonstrations during the national anthem.
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started protesting police brutality and social injustices in America by sitting or kneeling during the national anthem in 2016.
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The UN Development Programme found that 71% of people who joined jihadist groups in Africa did so in response to brutality by the security forces.
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Chicago officers have previously found themselves in hot water over police brutality, most notably in the 2014 shooting death of teenager Laquan McDonald.
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That isn’t to say that the Bernie Sanders people approve of family separation or pretending that police brutality isn’t real.
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First Known Use of brutality
1550
brutality Synonyms
Synonyms
atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, cruelty, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness;
Antonyms
benignity, compassion, good-heartedness, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness;
Near Antonyms
tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth;
charitableness, clemency, leniency, mercifulness, mercy, pity;
Related Words
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness;
ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness;
bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity;
cattiness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness;
hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness;
BRUTALITY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of brutality for English Language Learners
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: cruel, harsh, and usually violent treatment of another person
BRUTALITY Defined for Kids
Definition of brutality for Students
plural brutalities
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: the quality of being cruel and harsh
- … she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality.
- —Jack London, The Call of the Wild
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: a cruel and harsh act or course of action
- the brutalities of prison
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