grimness

noun

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as in ferocity

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  1. ferocity
  2. cruelty
  3. savagery
  4. brutality
  5. sadism
  6. inhumanity
  7. barbarity
Noun
  • As in other areas of the towering, fire-prone hillside neighborhoods that ring the Los Angeles basin, Pacific Palisades residents had long pleaded for more attention to preparing for the fires that are striking the region with ever-greater frequency and ferocity.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The key there was the offseason addition for the Gators, Florida Atlantic transfer guard Alijah Martin, who hounded Tennessee star Zakai Zeigler and gives the Gators something similar to what Zeigler has given the Vols for four seasons — relentless ferocity.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of ferocity
Noun
  • Blood is seen pouring out of skinned animals, the near-constant cruelty of the state’s differing climates is apparent and the ruthless, murderous human beings driven by capitalism and colonialism are lethal.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Meagan Ann Dixon, 44, is charged with murder, child endangerment and multiple counts of cruelty to animals in connection to the slayings, Sutter County Superior Court records show.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • Whatever Pratt imagined for Indian schools as an answer to Indian persecution, the schools became, in the early decades especially, places of repression, punishment, and occasional savagery.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Golding's singular debut novel, with its group of prepubescent boys stranded on an uninhabited island, highlights the delicate balance between civilization and savagery.
    The Week US, theweek, 24 Sep. 2024
Definition of savagery
Noun
  • The limited 6-part series was written by the same screenwriter who penned The Revenant, and the show very much follows that film’s style and overall sense of brutality and bleakness.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And the plotting didn’t take place in strange, distant areas: Among those charged with acts of brutality or acting as conspirators in the insurrection were residents of Ormond Beach, Titusville, Kissimmee and other familiar, nearby cities.
    Orlando Sentinel and New York Daily News Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of brutality
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Bill Moseley enters the franchise as Chop-Top, a new family member who was apparently in Vietnam during the events of the first film and has returned with a metal plate in his head and a penchant for grating sadism.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Popular on Variety But Art the Clown takes the concept of enjoying homicidal sadism to new levels of sick-puppy insanity.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of sadism
Noun
  • This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.
    Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
    Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
Definition of inhumanity
Noun
  • The dehumanizing treatment prisoners received on Devil’s Island was, in effect, a continuation of the barbarity long inflicted on French Guiana’s enslaved population.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Guillén’s 2017 caricature shows Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro clubbing a woman representing democracy to a bloody pulp, the way his security forces were savaging pro-democracy demonstrators that year — barbarity a U.N. report designated as crimes against humanity.
    Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
Definition of barbarity
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