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Noun
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Saline County sheriff’s deputies, responding to an animal cruelty report entered the Fullen’s field after observing about 50 cattle, many with calves, with minimal grass to graze on, according to an affidavit.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025 -
Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony under New York State law and carries a sentence of up to two years if convicted.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Equally possible: the automotive slaughter was nothing more than bloodlust.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps Knock is unsettling because he is being brainwashed by Orlok to view his inhumane bloodlust as his salvation.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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First of all, of course, the savagery of the crime.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
26 Nov. 2024
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When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2024
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The dehumanizing treatment prisoners received on Devil’s Island was, in effect, a continuation of the barbarity long inflicted on French Guiana’s enslaved population.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Dec. 2024
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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
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To understand why Germans at different levels of society backed Hitler, scholars often cite people’s deep commitment to Nazi ideology; the hatred of Jews, homosexuals, Romani, or Communists; or sheer psychopathic sadism.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, Bill Moseley enters the franchise as Chop-Top, a new family member who was apparently in Vietnam during the events of the first film and has returned with a metal plate in his head and a penchant for grating sadism.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
11 Oct. 2024
Noun
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This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.—
Becca Rothfeld,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
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Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.—
Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2020
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Those factories were disproportionately African American, exacerbating the ever-present burden of segregation and police brutality.—
Matthew Scogin,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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The series generally holds nothing back in terms of portraying the kind of visceral brutality that resulted from the violent campaign of manifest destiny and America’s founding.—
Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Jan. 2025
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