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The Ukrainian defenders are wisely withdrawing in the face of this reckless barbarism, but at a high price to their own morale and their will to continue the fight.

From Time

He does not like the army’s current “What’s your warrior” marketing campaign, because “warrior” speaks of barbarism to him.

From Time

I write it out of shame, and identification that this kind of barbarism resonated with me as well.

From Vox

Yet while it’s easy to think of the group through the lens of medieval barbarism, it is also showing smart tactical thinking in its military approach.

From Ozy

However, these stances relativistically position ankle monitors as “better than” incarceration, and avoid tough conversations about the barbarism of the devices themselves.

“Barbarism,” said retired NYPD Officer Jim Smith on Thursday.

His sexual life, just like his barbarism, was the result of deliberation, not appetites run amok.

This war, said Poroshenko, is a “choice between civilization and barbarism.”

The difference now is that ISIS no longer depends on intermediaries to broadcast its barbarism.

“ISIS is pure barbarism, it is bloodthirsty,” Marchouch told The Daily Beast in an interview.

A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.

This monstrous medley gave birth to the macaroni style, the very climax of barbarism.

Tis funny to be thus of two civilisations—or, if you like, of one civilisation and one barbarism.

Perhaps the influence of the Berber blood in the population helps to prolong this barbarism.

Every nation, even those which are but just emerging from barbarism, has its domestic animals.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to barbarism, such as: atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, inhumanity, and catachresis.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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