Bashi-bazoukery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /baʃɪbəˈzuːkəɹɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bashi-bazoukery is a noun meaning Extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty.
Meaning
Extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty.
Example Sentences
Bashi-bazoukery was rampant in the area of Urfa and Ulysses was bastinadoed mercilessly.
[…] 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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brutalism, violence, brutality, bloodbath, bash, barbarism.
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