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brutality

/broo-tal-i-tee/US // bruˈtæl ɪ ti //

残暴,暴行,残暴行为,残暴的行为

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bru·tal·i·ties.

    • : the quality of being brutal; cruelty; savagery.
    • : a brutal act or practice.

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Examples

  • The Post-ABC News poll finds that a bare majority of Wisconsin voters support the protests against police brutality and racial injustice.

  • That we thought we had moved past that, as a kid we saw a lot of brutality from communities and policemen and we felt like we had moved past that.

  • A few years ago, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who is bi-racial, took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality.

  • Floyd’s death sparked a nationwide protest movement against police brutality that continues.

  • Still, some academics who have studied the phenomenon in recent years see evidence that rising rates of violence in cities that have experienced high-profile incidents of police brutality are driven by police pullbacks.

  • 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.