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mayhem

A state of chaos, disorder, or disruption. She waded into the mayhem, elbowing between taller men to work her way to the front of the crowd. The fighting dogs created mayhem in the flower beds. What if the legendary hero Robin Hood had been born into the mayhem of the 20th century? The crime of intentionally or a person.

mayhem

the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person (= havoc) violent and needless disturbance

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Simple sentences

There is no reason for such mayhem.
It was complete mayhem.

Movie subtitles

So, Mayhem Global hires Duran to hack Meet'N'Cheat.
What about Mayhem Global?
I am Mayhem Global.
With a free hand to commit mayhem.
Mayhem? Shish kebab?
There's mayhem in the streets.
Same old stuff, murder and mayhem.
There's nothing like a little bit of mayhem to cheer one up.
Arson, armed robbery, mayhem.
But for others, the animal lure of mayhem. the physical sensation of life-and-death struggle. produces gratification.
The whole Baadermeinhof gang mixed up in the worst kind of mayhem.
It's mayhem.
You people are interested in death and mayhem and you don't care how you get the story.
So, you got nostalgic for mayhem?
Self-defence, mayhem, shish kebab?
This is mayhem, sir.
Judy thought it might be a good idea if she and her partner in mayhem left the premises until Paula's anger had abated.
Mayhem, carnage, ugh, this is really the limit.
You think folks come here chitchatting about the mayhem they hear about?
It gives me great pleasure to be appearing here with Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Orchestra.
They were after him for everything from bouncing bad checks to raising mayhem.
After three days of mayhem, Raskado took the cow maps, the clothes Ova had taken off in the shower house and a can of petrol, and burnt himself to death in a bird hide in the marsh by the sea.
Death, mayhem, a talking car to the rescue.
Oh, she's resting, but I don't know how much more of this mayhem she can take.
What's this mayhem all about?
Enter this horrible mayhem, that I've got in my head.
The Special Air Service has already been dispatched, willing to demonstrate once again the gratuitous violence and mayhem for which they are so rightly famous.
Where his show had been condemned by parents and educators alike. as simpleminded TV mayhem, this new Krusty devoted a small portion of every show. to stamping out illiteracy in today's anything-for-a-thrill youth.
Aah! Mayhem.
From their records, they only contribute mayhem and chaos.
No, I'm Chaos, he's Mayhem.
No murder, no mayhem.
It would be wrong to suggest. this sort of mayhem began with rock and roll.
What better way to spread beer-fueled mayhem?
This case isn't about murder, mayhem or massacres.
Mayhem, theft, resisting.
Let the mayhem begin.
Anyone who would commit mayhem for a potato chip.

News and current affairs

No imposed constitution, however elegant it may be, will be very helpful to Coalition forces when confronted with the type of mayhem seen in towns like Fallujah or Najjaf.
Therefore, the Iraq report is more than a plan to rescue Iraq; it is a road map for extricating America from the mayhem of an unwinnable war.
And the war in Iraq barely ended before the mayhem in Syria commenced.
I do not know how many Islamic leaders preach murder and mayhem in mosques and help recruit suicide bombers from among their congregants; but even if it is only a handful, they pose a question that must be answered.
The mayhem of the Second World War was followed by more than 40 years of Communist dictatorship in Central and Eastern Europe.
The imperial order becomes brittle, and, as Kagan rightly notes, when the old order finally breaks down, mayhem often follows.
Reagan did not (his CIA helped to unleash death and mayhem in Central America throughout the 1980s).
In these cirumstances, neither Syria nor Iran seems capable of delivering anything but mayhem in Iraq.
Ending CIA-caused mayhem would go far to staunch the instability, violence, and anti-Western hatred that fuels today's terrorism.
Iraq's mayhem has hardened the antagonism of countries like France and Germany, which led the opposition to the war in the first place.
If Iraq continues along its current disastrous path, mayhem and civil war will be the inevitable outcome, with dire consequences for the entire region.
Not all long-term dictatorships, however, end in disintegration and mayhem.
Creative and innovative thinking is needed about Iraq; otherwise today's mayhem will continue--and worsen.
On the face of it, these moves appear to be well justified, given the mayhem created by poorly regulated banks in the major financial centers.
In grim detail, his letter described the bloody mayhem that the slaughter brought to his hospital and the hysteria of ordinary people as they arrived to find children and loved ones dead.
A contingent of roughly 2,500 troops from 22 countries went to the DRC in mid-2003 to support United Nations troops, and provided a rapid reaction force that snuffed out disorder in Kinshasa before it could erupt into full-blown mayhem.
There was also mayhem following the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Given this, Saudi Arabia's leadership - regardless of what temporary results are achieved through the Vienna talks - will continue to work hard to ensure that Assad is removed from power and that the mayhem is finally brought to an end.
Yes, America's wars in the region - as destructive as they were stupid - bear a substantial part of the blame for the mayhem now engulfing the Fertile Crescent.
The fact that neither the mayhem in the Middle East nor the crisis in Ukraine seem to touch financial markets should not lull us into complacency.
Jimmy Carter tried; Reagan did not (his CIA helped to unleash death and mayhem in Central America throughout the 1980s).
The Middle East will continue its slide into mayhem - perversely befitting the upcoming centenary of World War I's outbreak.

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