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The quality or state of being inhumane, barbarous, or bestial.

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  • We hear countless stories of children also being victims of brutalness, brutality.
  • Tis clean and there's no after caterwaulerin 'about accidental death or police brutalness and such.
  • Arthur Byron Cover is not as indicative of deep thinking as he would prefer it, but I cannot help but be dismayed at the brutalness of his frank appraisal; for he is...
  • Australia survive autumn's mellow brutalness to blow England away
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