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barbaric

[bahr-bar-ik] / bɑrˈbær ɪk /


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The law firm says the use of the rooms was "barbaric", according to its clients.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Vikings weren’t just “simple, uncivilized, barbaric hordes,” says historian after a huge 1,000-year-old textile production site was discovered.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

In July, when the first deportees were sent to Eswatini, a US Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said on social media they were "so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back".

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

Woods denounced the gas chamber just as others in Arizona had once denounced hanging, saying that it was barbaric and out of step with modern standards of justice.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2026

All that stands in the way of our assessment of our sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ancestors as cruel, barbaric monsters is what they produced in art, poetry, architecture and music.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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