savagery

noun sav·age·ry \ ˈsa-vij-rē , -vi-jə- \

|Updated on: 10 Jun 2018

Examples: savagery in a Sentence

Definition of savagery

plural savageries

1 a : the quality of being savage

b : an act of cruelty or violence

2 : an uncivilized state

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Examples of savagery in a Sentence

The savagery of the attack was horrifying.
an act of pure savagery
the savageries committed by the soldiers

Recent Examples of savagery from the Web

But in the post-equality era, the play stands as a compelling portrayal of internecine savagery bred by the stigma of isolation and oppression, by turns bitingly funny and moving.

— david rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, "'The Boys in the Band': Theater Review," 1 June 2018
When the dictators lost their grips, countries across the region imploded, loosing savagery and suffering that still burns on.

— dexter filkins, New York Times, "Why Libya Continues to Burn," 18 May 2018
In America, dirt racing is very aggressive at the best of times but when the weather goes like that, the aggression turns into nearly savagery.

— tim sullivan, The Courier-Journal, "Michigan coach's athlete payment plan to invest in stocks has its holes," 12 May 2018
In essence, the card has become a high-tech proxy for the unresolved conflicts that drove Afghanistan to civil war in the early 1990s, sweeping the extremist Taliban movement to power as the country deteriorated into interethnic savagery and chaos.

— Washington Post, "New Afghan ID cards, aimed at unifying the country, are doing the opposite," 10 Mar. 2018
And anyway, the drama is in the transfixing way this story is told, as savagery and civilization perform a ruthless tug of war.

— matthew gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, "Amazon’s ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ is a transfixing tale," 23 May 2018
Cart driver became the hero and just drove away with Bride to stop the savagery.

— megan friedman, Marie Claire, "5 Insane Stories of Family Drama Ruining Weddings," 14 May 2018
But the savagery of the last line—the insistence that the inner self was slop that nobody sensible could possibly want to know about—could not simply be Kael talking about art or Hiroshima or Marguerite Duras.

— michelle dean, The New Republic, "Pauline Kael’s Long Delayed Big Break," 11 Apr. 2018
The year 1947 did mark a tipping point between the savagery of the immediate past and the tentative stirrings of postwar potentialities.

— dagmar herzog, New York Times, "Surviving Europe’s Horrendous 20th Century," 6 Apr. 2018

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