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Definition of savagery in English: savagerynounPlural savageries ˈsavɪdʒ(ə)riˈsævɪdʒri mass noun1The quality of being fierce or cruel. a crime of the utmost savagery she was treated with particular savagery by cartoonists Example sentencesExamples - There were many revolts which were put down with incredible savagery.
- Her heart torn from her chest, the townspeople believe that the only thing capable of such savagery is a wolf or a bear.
- By its nature the submarine, unable to rescue its victims, brought a new savagery to a hitherto not very bloody form of war.
- In its savagery, the massacre stages the white supremacist fantasy of genocide.
- Then the murder of two Israeli boys stoned to death in what one headline called a crime of " biblical savagery ".
- I do my best to forgive him for savagery.
- There was intense savagery in the putting down of the Cathars.
- The savagery of the attack on Tal Afar even prompted a muted protest from neighbouring Turkey.
- Now these mosques have either been destroyed by savagery of times or are under personal control of people who later occupied them.
- We are never more than a single generation away from total savagery.
- Christopher Tookey said the whole Protestant community was implicated in the gang's savagery.
- At last people suspected of savagery in Nazi-occupied Europe faced prosecution in British courts.
- The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support.
- The savagery of some of these murders is worth a moment's pause.
- The dog represented an extension, even a vanguard, of man's savagery.
- Today's car bomb in Baghdad outside the Jordanian embassy which killed 11 people is obviously disturbing in its savagery.
- The news of this savagery spread through the island.
- Intercultural struggles, with their unbridled savagery, are the great nightmare of the next century. "
- Throughout Eastern Europe, the end of WWII merely signified an exchange of tyrannies, with communist brutality rising to supersede Nazi savagery.
- However, inborn savagery is not a Colombian trait.
Synonyms brutality, ferocity, fierceness, violence, viciousness, cruelty, sadism, barbarity, barbarousness, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, pitilessness, inhumanity, heartlessness rare ferity 2(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) the condition of being primitive or uncivilized. without adult society, the children descend into savagery the progress of civilization over savagery Example sentencesExamples - Will we retreat to leave the ungrateful natives to their savagery, having spurned the gifts of our civilisation?
- After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
- Communication, except the more primitive kinds and the printed word were lost as survivors slipped backward toward savagery.
- White Americans began imagining African Americans as bestial examples of Africa's primitive savagery within the nation's borders.
- The pig symbolised savagery, anarchy and destruction.
- The very simplicity of his nakedness, the apparent savagery of it, the barbarian disregard for the niceties of twentieth century warfare, made him the number one target for German sharpshooters.
- We have the half-breed, the result of the union between the Indian, the representative of savagery, and the white man, the representative of civilization.
- Cultural associations between black and white, sin and purity, savagery and civilization, all conspired to fix subsaharan Africans into a symbolic category in polar opposition to lighter-skinned northwest Europeans.
- How then does Churchward account for the archaeologists ' theory that man has struggled up from savagery to his present level?
- Its story of a group of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after an aeroplane crash who descend into savagery still has the power to shock and enthral.
- Eastman's depiction certainly seeks to contradict one prominent strain of thought at the end of the nineteenth century regarding the irredeemable savagery of American Indians, including, notably, Indian children.
- Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery.
- In the male mythical imagination women are repeatedly associated with nature rather than culture, savagery rather than civilization, the wild rather than the tame.
- Black people have long labored under the stigma of savagery.
- In the case of Larry Talbot and his hirsute pals, these films suggested that only a thin line kept us from reverting to a state of animalistic savagery.
- Thus Darwin may have employed the word "savagery" to describe the cultural level of non-Europeans.
- When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
- Soon after he enters the New World, the European sheds the skin of civilization, passes through a temporary condition of savagery, and finally appears as a completely new creature.
- Even Lord of the Flies - which I love as a metaphor for many, many things, like the savagery of humanity - treats the children more as symbolic figures.
- We are well on the return path to savagery, to a society void of values, a veritable jungle in which only the strong survive and thrive.
Definition of savagery in US English: savagerynounˈsavijrēˈsævɪdʒri 1The quality of being fierce or cruel. a crime of the utmost savagery she was treated with particular savagery by cartoonists Example sentencesExamples - At last people suspected of savagery in Nazi-occupied Europe faced prosecution in British courts.
- Intercultural struggles, with their unbridled savagery, are the great nightmare of the next century. "
- Now these mosques have either been destroyed by savagery of times or are under personal control of people who later occupied them.
- By its nature the submarine, unable to rescue its victims, brought a new savagery to a hitherto not very bloody form of war.
- Her heart torn from her chest, the townspeople believe that the only thing capable of such savagery is a wolf or a bear.
- However, inborn savagery is not a Colombian trait.
- The news of this savagery spread through the island.
- There were many revolts which were put down with incredible savagery.
- Then the murder of two Israeli boys stoned to death in what one headline called a crime of " biblical savagery ".
- The dog represented an extension, even a vanguard, of man's savagery.
- I do my best to forgive him for savagery.
- Today's car bomb in Baghdad outside the Jordanian embassy which killed 11 people is obviously disturbing in its savagery.
- Christopher Tookey said the whole Protestant community was implicated in the gang's savagery.
- In its savagery, the massacre stages the white supremacist fantasy of genocide.
- We are never more than a single generation away from total savagery.
- Throughout Eastern Europe, the end of WWII merely signified an exchange of tyrannies, with communist brutality rising to supersede Nazi savagery.
- The savagery of some of these murders is worth a moment's pause.
- The savagery of the attack on Tal Afar even prompted a muted protest from neighbouring Turkey.
- The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support.
- There was intense savagery in the putting down of the Cathars.
Synonyms brutality, ferocity, fierceness, violence, viciousness, cruelty, sadism, barbarity, barbarousness, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, pitilessness, inhumanity, heartlessness 2(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) the condition of being primitive or uncivilized. without adult society, the children descend into savagery the progress of civilization over savagery Example sentencesExamples - We have the half-breed, the result of the union between the Indian, the representative of savagery, and the white man, the representative of civilization.
- After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
- In the case of Larry Talbot and his hirsute pals, these films suggested that only a thin line kept us from reverting to a state of animalistic savagery.
- Even Lord of the Flies - which I love as a metaphor for many, many things, like the savagery of humanity - treats the children more as symbolic figures.
- Cultural associations between black and white, sin and purity, savagery and civilization, all conspired to fix subsaharan Africans into a symbolic category in polar opposition to lighter-skinned northwest Europeans.
- Soon after he enters the New World, the European sheds the skin of civilization, passes through a temporary condition of savagery, and finally appears as a completely new creature.
- Communication, except the more primitive kinds and the printed word were lost as survivors slipped backward toward savagery.
- We are well on the return path to savagery, to a society void of values, a veritable jungle in which only the strong survive and thrive.
- Its story of a group of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after an aeroplane crash who descend into savagery still has the power to shock and enthral.
- Black people have long labored under the stigma of savagery.
- Will we retreat to leave the ungrateful natives to their savagery, having spurned the gifts of our civilisation?
- Thus Darwin may have employed the word "savagery" to describe the cultural level of non-Europeans.
- Eastman's depiction certainly seeks to contradict one prominent strain of thought at the end of the nineteenth century regarding the irredeemable savagery of American Indians, including, notably, Indian children.
- The very simplicity of his nakedness, the apparent savagery of it, the barbarian disregard for the niceties of twentieth century warfare, made him the number one target for German sharpshooters.
- Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery.
- In the male mythical imagination women are repeatedly associated with nature rather than culture, savagery rather than civilization, the wild rather than the tame.
- When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
- White Americans began imagining African Americans as bestial examples of Africa's primitive savagery within the nation's borders.
- How then does Churchward account for the archaeologists ' theory that man has struggled up from savagery to his present level?
- The pig symbolised savagery, anarchy and destruction.
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