(n.) Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) As opposition to her and her measures became more intense, she responded not with emollience but with increased ferocity.
(2) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
(3) Although the ferocity of the wind has eased, engineers have been struggling to restore electricity in conditions described as treacherous and worsening.
(4) And there were moments when the ferocity of the disease made some clinicians wonder if anything would stand in its way.
(5) The ferocity of the battle, once the results of the prime minister’s negotiations with his EU partners had been announced, has taken Downing Street aback.
(6) Dozens have been injured on either side; the ferocity of the attacks has shocked the nation.
(7) "Dislike" is, in fact, far too mild: there's a depth of contempt, a cold ferocity of detestation, that can shock.
(8) The Huffington Post reported that some in the CIA have been pushing for the US to make a secret pact with Bashar al-Assad, the same dictator we almost went to war with a year ago – the same man who has suddenly stepped up his country’s ferocity of attacks on the US-backed rebels , ahead of the expected air campaign.
(9) In explaining his opposition to Adani’s plans, Ian Chappell said “you don’t need to be Einstein when you see the frequency and the ferocity of some of the weather events that we’ve been having”.
(10) June 8, 2014 2.34pm BST First set: Djokovic* 3-2 Nadal Djokovic goes 40-15 up with a flying crosscourt forehand from deep behind the baseline that lands perfectly on the line, a shot of beauty and ferocity.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Slowing his words in a way some viewers interpreted as patronising, Kellerman continued: “But he had to be hitting you with something because you weren’t attacking him with the same kind of ferocity that we sometimes see you attack.
(12) Now that ally is showing as much ferocity in striking at the "moderates" of the Free Syrian Army as against the regime.
(13) Most were still reeling from the ferocity and speed of the attacks.
(14) Slater has run scores of posts attacking the German, increasing in frequency and ferocity since Dotcom’s founding of the Internet party.
(15) You should not use bad language any time to police officers and I should not have used it.” He accepted that it was said that a chief whip had to have a mixture of charm and menace, and that he could be abrasive, but said: “I strive not to be abrasive.” He said: “I don’t believe any of my colleagues who knew me well would have believed I would call a police officer a pleb.” He added: “When there is a media storm of the ferocity which hit me – the extraordinary tsunami of vitriol which descended on my head over a prolonged period of time led by the Sun – it is not surprising that very few people would put their head above the barricade and defend me, although a certain number did.” Mitchell agreed that he had a temper, but not that he was quick to lose it.
(16) But as the equipment inspected the bathroom, Mohamed Merah burst out, apparently armed with several weapons, and fired with extreme ferocity … Raid officers returned fire.
(17) She once took on Nigel Farage on Question Time with a ferocity that impressed colleagues, but later prompted slightly different reactions when she said that Farage looked like “somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it”.
(18) She had never seen him play with such energy, such ferocity.
(19) The before-and-after photographs of Doron Baga, which lies 1.5 miles from Baga, reveal the ferocity of the onslaught, with more than 3,100 structures damaged or destroyed by fire.
(20) Certainly she struggled to keep up with Bouchard’s sustained ferocity from the baseline.
Savage
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
(a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
(a.) Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
(a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
(n.) A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
(n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
(v. t.) To make savage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
(2) But he will also have seen Michael Cockerell's savage documentary on Saturday on How to be a Tory leader.
(3) Lib Dems are the most hostile to cuts and the keenest on tax – 32% want cuts and 53% tax – suggesting that Clegg's talk of "savage" reductions in spending may go down badly with his party base.
(4) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(5) Vince Cable, the business secretary, who was savagely critical of BAE over bribery allegations whilst in opposition in 2010 , said: "It is a very, very important decision and has major implications for the country, both in terms of employment and national security.
(6) Wendy Savage, from Keep Our NHS Public , said groups from London, Oxford and Manchester would be demonstrating alongside members of the NHS Consultants' Association.
(7) After savaging the childcare support available to poorer working parents through tax credits in 2011, the coalition last year sought to redeem itself with a first draft of the new subsidy scheme, which created some winners up the scale, but left many more vulnerable part-time workers better off not working at all.
(8) We feel that Mrs. Savage and Dr. Francome (Dec. 2, p. 1323) provide important information to be considered in the debate about the provision of abortion services.
(9) Geller's ads, sharply dividing the world into civilized people and savages, are only intended to hurt and tear fragile relationships apart."
(10) A trained economist, and de facto "deputy chancellor" under Gordon Brown between 1997 and 2005, Balls's recent speech at Bloomberg, savaging the "growth deniers" of the Con-Dem coalition and urging a slower pace of fiscal consolidation, was hailed by Martin Wolf ("basically right") and Samuel Brittan ("spot on") of the Financial Times.
(11) Then there’s the shift from disability living allowance to the personal independence payment , which last month the public accounts committee savaged as a “fiasco”, leaving many facing six-months delays – and the dying having to wait for weeks for support.
(12) The 15-year-old was tortured and savagely beaten before he drowned in a bath at his sister’s flat in east London on Christmas Day 2010.
(13) Consequently, after Hartson fed Jason Koumas on the right in the first minute and the ball was cleared to Savage on the edge of the Russian box, Savage whacked at the bouncing ball excitedly.
(14) Their policy decisions, including increases in the cost of living, the sale of TIO [Territory Insurance Office], savage cuts to health and education and general arrogance has burned public trust in their integrity and competence,” said Snowdon, who called the party “a joke” and said nobody could take the territory seriously now.
(15) At last year’s press launch for Savage Beauty’s homecoming leg Martin Roth, the V&A director, told a story about the day, four years ago, when he landed in New York to see the show there.
(16) John Savage 'We were all cycling, listening to the Smiths' Ruth Martin outside the Salford Lads Club, Salford.
(17) Iranians complain that it represents them as savage, murderous and warmongering.
(18) In the wake of the savage killing of Rigby in broad daylight it emerged that Adebolajo and Adebowale were both known to MI5 – and Adebolajo had been approached on his return from Kenya to the UK to act as an informer and help the security services break up extremist Islamist cells.
(19) The FCO's lawyers had already conceded in court that the accounts given by the three Mau Mau veterans – of castration, rape and savage beatings – had been honest accounts, and that senior British and colonial officials had been aware of the ugly truth about daily life in the prison camps of 1950s Kenya.
(20) The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machete attack that killed a serving soldier in London .