I don't tolerate savagery, much less in a country that claims to be democratic.
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Savagery
/ˈsæv.ɪd͡ʒ.ɹɪ/
Synonyms for "savagery" (103 found)
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18 entriesatrocitybehaviorconductcruelnesscrueltycultural stateferocityfiercenessfuriousnessfuryharshnessinhumanitymoral statesocial conditionvehemenceviolence
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10 entriesCollocations
6 entriesbarbaric savagerycivilian savagerydocumented savageryextreme savageryprimitive savagerystate sponsored savagery
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"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.
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“For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”
Source: wiktionary
They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.
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