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  • 21inhumanity — /in hyooh man i tee/ or, often, / yooh /, n., pl. inhumanities for 2. 1. the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty. 2. an inhuman or inhumane act. [1470 80; earlier inhumanite < L inhumanitas. See INHUMAN, ITY] Syn. 1. savagery,&#8230; …

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  • 22Marcus Aurelius — /aw ree lee euhs, aw reel yeuhs/, (Marcus Annius Verus) A.D. 121 180, Stoic philosopher and writer: emperor of Rome 161 180. Also called Marcus Aurelius Antoninus /an teuh nuy neuhs/. * * * in full Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus orig.&#8230; …

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  • 23Forster, E M — ▪ British writer Introduction born Jan. 1, 1879, London died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng.  British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India&#8230; …

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  • 24bestiality — bes·ti·al·i·ty /ˌbes chē a lə tē, ˌbēs / n: the crime of engaging in sexual relations with an animal see also crime against nature Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 25cruelty — cru·el·ty n pl ties 1 a: an intentional or criminally negligent act that causes pain and suffering cruelty to animals cruelty to children b: mistreatment or neglect that causes pain and suffering compare abuse …

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  • 26ferity — noun /ˈfɛɹɪti/ The quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state; wildness, brutishness …

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  • 27brutality — I noun act of inhumanity, barbarity, bestiality, brutalness, brutilization, brutishness, cruelness, cruelty, grossness, hardness, hardness of heart, harshness, heart of stone, heartlessness, immanitas, inhumanity, lack of feeling, mercilessness,&#8230; …

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  • 28animalism — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Marxism, animality, atomism, beastliness, behaviorism, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnal mindedness, carnality, coarseness, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, earthiness,&#8230; …

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  • 29animality — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Animalia, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animalism, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, bawdiness, beastliness, beasts, beasts of field,&#8230; …

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  • 30barbarism — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, Irish bull, Neanderthalism, age of ignorance, animality, antiphrasis, bad taste, barbarity, barbarousness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, cacology, cacophony,&#8230; …

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