Barbarity and Spite

Barbarity

Barbarity noun - Disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others.

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Spite and barbarity are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spite" instead a noun "Barbarity".

Spite noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.

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Barbarity and spite are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Barbarity" instead a noun "Spite".

Nearby Words: spiteful, spitefully, spiting

This was one of the reasons his soldiers stayed loyal to him in spite of his barbarity and obvious insanity.

Source: Useful Notes / Ungern-Sternberg
In fine it is proverbial, according to the prediction of the prophet, that from the north comes all that is evil, as those have had too good cause to know, who through the spite of fortune and the fall of the die have experienced the barbarity of the races of the north.

Source: Myth / St. Edmund of East Anglia

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