Savagery

//ˈsæv.ɪd͡ʒ.ɹɪ//

"Savagery" in a Sentence (5 examples)

I don't tolerate savagery, much less in a country that claims to be democratic.

"People are fascinated with Harriet Tubman because they see her as an ordinary person who rose up against all odds to escape the savagery of slavery," said Donald Pinder, president of a group that runs the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge, Maryland.

“For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”

They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.

[…] they […] made, amongst other features, lead ponds. With their departure these lands once more reverted to savagery; gardening, along with virtually all aspects of culture, disappeared and with it the man-made water gardens.

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