brutal crime
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbrutalandcrime
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brutal
adjective
uk/ˈbruː.təl/us/ˈbruː.t̬əl/
cruel, violent, and completely ...
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crime
noun
uk/kraɪm/us/kraɪm/
illegal ...
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(Definition ofbrutalandcrimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is no doubt that we are faced with a particularly hideous andbrutalcrime.
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Four young men were convicted of abrutalcrimeand sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment.
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I can understand why, when people read of a particularlybrutalcrime, they wish that they could do something effective.
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What happens in a case where there is abrutalcrime, an atrocity, ordered, perhaps, by a junior officer?
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Everything possible will be done to assist them and to track down the perpetrators of thisbrutalcrime.
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His alleged election is a dreadful sham, his power is not legitimate and his violence against the opposition is abrutalcrime.
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It is easy, especially at a time of disgust and incredulity in the aftermath of a nasty and inexplicablybrutalcrime, to look for an easy answer.
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What we have seen is a verybrutalcrime, and we have been unable to reverse it in the way we would have hoped to do.
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The cartoon serves as an explanation as of why such abrutalcrimeis committed at the beginning.
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There are those who argue that because someone is the victim of abrutalcrimethey must think of the victim and not of the one who is guilty.
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