brutality

noun

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1
as in cruelty
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others the police were accused of brutality for using excessive force in making arrests

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2
as in brutishness
the manifestation of the traits or the gratification of the appetites of a lower animal the disconcerting ease with which the people adopted the brutality of the enemy invaders

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