Ultraviolence

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Unnecessary, unprovoked (usually brutal) violence; violent acts simply for the thrill and entertainment of it. uncountable

    "I gave them the ultra-violence, the crasting, the dratsing, the old in-out in-out, the lot, right up to this night's veshch with the bugatty starry ptitsa with the mewing kots and koshkas."

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"I gave them the ultra-violence, the crasting, the dratsing, the old in-out in-out, the lot, right up to this night's veshch with the bugatty starry ptitsa with the mewing kots and koshkas."

Etymology

From ultra + violence.

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