cold-bloodedness

noun

Definition of cold-bloodednessnext
as in cruelty

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  1. cruelty
  2. savagery
  3. inhumanity
  4. barbarity
  5. brutality
Noun
  • By separating the cruelty from the constructive, a company can turn criticism into a catalyst for meaningful growth.
    Molly McPherson, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The 17-year-old was charged with animal cruelty, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in jail, according to an arrest affidavit released in late November.
    Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world.
    Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of savagery
Noun
  • Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
    Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of inhumanity
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  • Guillén’s 2017 caricature shows Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro clubbing a woman representing democracy to a bloody pulp, the way his security forces were savaging pro-democracy demonstrators that year — barbarity a U.N. report designated as crimes against humanity.
    Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Israel has also tried highlighting Hamas’s barbarity, including by screening its own supercut of the October 7 massacre for select audiences, including groups in the United States.
    P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
Definition of barbarity
Noun
  • Syrians are still digesting the systemic brutality of the regime, now that prisons and torture chambers – chief among them Sednaya – have been opened.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The killing of the CEO captivated the nation, both for the brutality of the crime and for the anger and frustration many people expressed about the health care insurance system.
    Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of brutality
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