Definitions for savagery

savagery sav·age·ry

Spelling: [sav-ij-ree]
IPA: /ˈsæv ɪdʒ ri/

Savagery is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in savagery (aaegrsvy).

Definitions for savagery

noun

  1. an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
  2. savage action, nature, disposition, or behavior.

Origin of savagery

First recorded in 1585-95; savage + -ry

Examples for savagery

In two days of savagery, the 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” slaughtered nearly everyone in the town.

Naturally, there were reports of brutality and savagery, but none were proved.

But the Islamic State has clearly come to the opposite conclusion, cornering the market on savagery.

Then you are come to ask pardon for all your crossness, your savagery of this morning?

Any other savagery on your part I can stand, and will stand, as a lover should.

There was no stain of savagery upon the delight we had in coming to this spot.

Nor is it the way the gunman manages not to spill a drop of the drink in his other hand as he commits all this savagery.

The Zetas stood out for his savagery, the U.S. investigator had said, particularly Treviño Morales.

Children are drawn into the savagery at a heartbreakingly young age.

And yet this people display some of the grossest elements of savagery.

Word Value for savagery
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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