Brutality or brutal most commonly refers to:
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Violence
Violence is characterized as the use of physical force by humans to cause harm to other living beings, or property, such as pain, injury, disablement, death, damage and destruction. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence a ...
, physical force unlawfully exercised toward property and/or persons
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Battery (crime)
Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact.
Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more gen ...
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Police brutality
Police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement against an individual or Public order policing, a group. It is an extreme form of police misconduct and is a civil rights violation. Police brutality includes, b ...
Brutality or brutal may also refer to:
Media
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Brutal: Paws of Fury'', a 1994 video game
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''Brutal'' (film), a 1980 Filipino film
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''Brutality'' (film), a 1912 film
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''Brutal'' (Black Uhuru album), 1986
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''Brutal'' (Dr. Sin album), 1995
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"Brutal" (song), a 2021 Olivia Rodrigo song
Other uses
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Brutality (''Mortal Kombat''), a finishing move in the video game ''Mortal Kombat''
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Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by Minimalism (art), minimalist constructions th ...
, an architectural style
See also
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Brutalism (disambiguation)
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom.
Brutalism may also refer to:
* ''Brutalism'' (Idles album), 2017
* ''Brutalism'' (The Drums album), 2019
* "Brutalism", by Jean-Michel Jarre fr ...
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