ferocity
a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
Origin of ferocity
1Other words from ferocity
- non·fe·roc·i·ty, noun
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How to use ferocity in a sentence
Since then, though, streamers say hate raids have only grown in number and ferocity.
Twitch hate raids are more than just a Twitch problem, and they’re only getting worse | Nathan Grayson | August 25, 2021 | Washington PostIn India, the ferocity of the second wave left hospitals too full to treat the sick.
These twins are 5 years old. They lost both parents to covid-19. | Joanna Slater | June 17, 2021 | Washington PostJones’s short stories, she writes, “remind us — so gently it is easy to overlook their underlying ferocity — that we are all just tiny figures inside the sweep of an often violent history.”
‘B-Side Books’ adds to your must-read stack with the best books you’ve never heard of | Abby McGanney Nolan | June 10, 2021 | Washington PostCloud providers can, and do, protect their customers’ data with the same ferocity as they protect their own.
Many have assumed that this is a newfound feminist ferocity, but from ancient Queen Pwa Saw, to the first woman surgeon Daw Saw Sa, who qualified in 1911, Myanmar women have always been as strong as, if not stronger than, our men.
Myanmar's Women Are Fighting for a New Future After a Long History of Military Oppression | MiMi Aye | June 1, 2021 | Time
Phone lines would catch fire from the velocity and ferocity of his words.
David Garth, the Consultant Who Talked Up to Voters | Jeff Greenfield | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was just seamlessly being this person—the ferocity and intensity was incredible.
But when protests in Syria turned to civil war in June 2011, that activism took on a new ferocity.
The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad | Noah Shachtman, Michael Kennedy | October 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey are clashing with Israeli police with a ferocity not seen since the second Intifada.
The German Panzers fought with suicidal ferocity, storming the hill until it was rimmed with a bulwark of bodies.
Some peculiar lines between these contracted brows gave a character of ferocity to this forbidding and sensual face.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuBy this illustration the native ferocity of the eighteenth-century caricaturists is glaringly exemplified.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperThe eyes had something of the ferocity but also the fidelity of a well-trained watch-dog.
A Butterfly on the Wheel | Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger GullHis intensely black eyes, blacker even than the eyes of Coronado, had a stare of absolutely indescribable ferocity.
Overland | John William De ForestThere was hardly a face among that gang of wild riders which did not outdo the face of Texas Smith in degraded ferocity.
Overland | John William De Forest
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