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savagery
  1. the status of being savage
  2. a violent act of cruelty
  3. savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He fled to the USA as the general assumed control of the country and re-imposed the savagery that characterized the dictatorships of the past.”
      “With all his savagery, he was not half so savage, so unclean, so irreclaimable, as the tenant of a tenement in an East London slum.”
      “The savagery of the attack on Tal Afar even prompted a muted protest from neighbouring Turkey.”
savage
  1. (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
  2. (figuratively) A defiant person.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Stop being a heartless savage and try to show some compassion for a change.”
      “I do not appreciate being treated like a savage from the jungles.”
savagedom
  1. A savage state or condition; savagery.
  2. (collectively) Savages.
savagess
savagism
  1. The state of being savage; wildness; lack of civilization.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Bancroft is the author of the chapter on savagism and Civilization, and Nemos is to be credited with the writing of some parts.”
      “I have seen a good deal of ferocity and savagism, and it was not at all confined to people acknowledged to be barbarians.”
      “Civilization has its vices as well as its virtues, savagism has its advantages as well as its demerits.”
savageness
  1. The property of being savage or behaving savagely.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The savageness displayed by the pack of wolves was truly terrifying.”
      “Presentation is bland and the lack of graphic detail just doesn't do justice to the obvious savageness of the creatures.”
      “It fires its way through first, second and third with a savageness that's terrifyingly addictive.”
savaging
savagenesses
savagings
savagisms
  1. plural of savagism
savagesses
  1. plural of savagess
savageries
  1. plural of savagery
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the course of one terrible year, his body, mind and heart are shattered by the savageries of love and war.”
      “Well-intentioned proposals will not put an end to the occasional savageries of the marketplace or the vagaries of the democratic system.”
      “It belongs to the time of lynchings, of extreme political violence against blacks in the US, as well as to the time of European savageries in Africa.”
savages
  1. plural of savage
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Oh yes, they were hopeless philistines, little better than savages actually.”
      “Not surprisingly, it's a delicate issue for Native Americans, considering the once-prevalent stereotypes of Indians as marauding savages.”
      “It described noble savages playing oboes and amorously frolicking in tropical glades.”
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