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Bashi-bazoukery means Extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty..
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/baʃɪbəˈzuːkəɹɪ/ · noun
Extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty..
[…] I knew well the self-important back-patting, the servile admiration, the ambiguous analyses, the petty praise, and the pettier intellectual bashi-bazoukery --'
Late though the hour, there were quite enough people about to exaggerate the incident into fifty different versions and turn it into as bloodthirsty a piece of bashi-bazoukery as had ever thrilled Sirene.
Bashi-bazoukery was rampant in the area of Urfa and Ulysses was bastinadoed mercilessly.
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Bashi-bazoukery means Extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty..
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[…] I knew well the self-important back-patting, the servile admiration, the ambiguous analyses, the petty praise, and the pettier intellectual bashi-bazoukery --'
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