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brutality

[ broo-tal-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural bru·tal·i·ties.

First recorded in 1540–50; brutal + -ity

But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

“The Wizard of Watts is not just about police brutality,” he says.

The whir of the circling NYPD helicopter muffled their chants calling for unity and calling out police brutality.

"We're not anti-police, we're anti-police brutality," a member of the Justice League told the crowd, to cheers.

They contend that the protests are not anti-police brutality, but anti-police, period.

Politeness, being based upon real kindness of heart, cannot exist where there is selfishness or brutality to warp its growth.

But the longest red-letter day has its ending, and time and tide beckon one with the brutality of an impatient jailer.

Winston shivered a little at the dispassionate brutality of the speech, and then checked the anger that came upon him.

His passion for her surged up, aroused by pity for her plight, and awakened in him a sense of his brutality.

That young fellow only came yesterday, and you must needs run foul of him and half kill him with your brutality to-day.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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