as in mercilessness
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Noun
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There will always be injustice, cruelty and abuses of power.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
13 June 2025 -
But by holding the threat of losing access to your grandchildren over you, your kids are showing an unnecessary amount of cruelty to people (you) who don’t deserve it.—
Eric Thomas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2025
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Slaveholders first developed the trope in the 1790s in their representations of the emergent nation of Haiti, framing it as a dangerous site of social experimentation and savagery where Black freedom would inexorably lead to white death.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
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That the specific task at hand in Warfare is so vague is a good reminder that though this happened 20 years ago, there are people right now who have been ordered to enforce political will with violence, and this savagery will likely repeat for all time.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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All circled the same themes: surveillance, body image, sadism, hyperfemininity, male (heterosexual) desire and women’s obligation to fulfill it.—
Dayna Tortorici,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The book’s a meld of true crime, memoir and social commentary, but with a mission: to shock readers into a deeper understanding of the American Nightmare, ecological devastation entwined with senseless sadism.—
Hamilton Cain,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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But the picture’s cartoonish brutality is cathartic.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Failing to silence his work through restrictions and brutality, the Iranian regime appears to have been resigned to simply ignoring Panahi.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Nostalgia for the pre-Brown era would not exercise nearly so powerful a grip on Black America today if its adherents focused on its detailed, pervasive inhumanities rather than relying on gauzy glimpses.—
Justin Driver,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The media didn't talk about the inhumanity of it all, and didn't invoke fear of American life coming to a halt.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Indigenous peoples who survived all this barbarity are now facing the same list of homicidal intolerance.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
7 June 2025
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Self-defense group attacks agents The tragedy in the Artibonite region, considered the country’s breadbasket, is yet another example of Haiti’s descent into chaos and the degree to which impunity and barbarity rein as armed gangs tighten their grip.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2025
Noun
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With the Mets front office being aggressive in roster building, the Orioles' former All-Star should be circled as a target to bring some ferocity to the lineup.—
Hunter Mulholland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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Game day texts from her father, Phillip, almost inevitably focus on joy and energy and ferocity and, these days, nearly every whiff is followed by Pickens leaving her feet and screaming.—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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