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• n  the trait of extreme cruelty

• Hamas and Fatah may have passed the point of no return: The unprecedented viciousness of the renewed fighting between the rival Palestinian factions in Gaza makes any new cease .
• If so, global warming may exacerbate the threat an unsettling thought, given the viciousness of the disease.
• The unprecedented viciousness of the renewed fighting between the rival Palestinian factions in Gaza makes any new cease-fire difficult to envision.

• ferociousness
• brutality
• savagery

News & Articles

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• Herman Cain: U.S. is headed “towards socialism and towards communism”
  He added that he dropped out of the presidential race "because of the viciousness of the media"        
  June 16, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in CNNMoney.com
  The attacks reflect the viciousness of violent extremists, and remind us that the threat of terrorism remains very real,Clinton said in a statement issued from Prague as her plane stopped for refueling en route to India .
• Felipe Perez Roque in International Herald Tribune
  The blockade had never been enforced with such viciousness as over the last year,Felipe Perez Roque told the assembly, accusing US President George W. Bush's administration of adopting "new measures bordering on madness and fanaticism"...
• Ehud Olmert in FOXNews
  Olmert said that "many people in the world were astounded by the brutality and the cruelty and the viciousness" of the Hamas fighters.