barbarian

Example Sentences

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In a recorded message, Trump said conservatives were "freedom-loving patriots" who are "fighting against barbarians."

From Salon

This linguistic adeptness causes tension for both authors, who resent that their American upbringings confined them to English — what Ng calls the “barbarian’s language” and Wong “the language of the colonizer.”

From New York Times

For the Communist Party of China, Tibetans were serfs or barbarians in need of rescue and rehabilitation, with propaganda films portraying Han cadres as liberators.

From New York Times

"It also appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine regarding the return of the property of the 'diplomatic establishment' of the Russian barbarians to the Ukrainian state," he said.

From Reuters

America was, “I thought at the time, a country of barbarians,” she said in a 1967 interview.

From New York Times