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synonyms for barbarism

  • atrocity
  • barbarity
  • brutality
  • cruelty
  • inhumanity
  • catachresis
  • coarseness
  • corruption
  • impropriety
  • localism
  • malapropism
  • misuse
  • provincialism
  • solecism
  • vulgarism
  • misusage
  • primitive culture
  • uncivilizedness
  • vernacularism
  • vernacularity
On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to barbarism, such as: atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, inhumanity, and catachresis.

antonyms for barbarism

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  • kindness
  • niceness
  • praise
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How to use barbarism in a sentence

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.
THE NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IS INTENDED TO PROJECT POWER IT CANNOT SUSTAINFREDERICK W. KAGANJUNE 6, 2022TIME
He does not like the army’s current “What’s your warrior” marketing campaign, because “warrior” speaks of barbarism to him.
GEN. STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL WOULD HAVE DONE THINGS DIFFERENTLY IN AFGHANISTANBELINDA LUSCOMBEOCTOBER 5, 2021TIME
I write it out of shame, and identification that this kind of barbarism resonated with me as well.
AMERICA IS STILL STUCK IN THE WORLD 9/11 BUILTSEAN ILLINGSEPTEMBER 10, 2021VOX
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.
BUTTERFLY EFFECT: WHY TALIBAN 2.0 IS MORE DANGEROUSCHARU KASTURIAUGUST 12, 2021OZY
However, these stances relativistically position ankle monitors as “better than” incarceration, and avoid tough conversations about the barbarism of the devices themselves.
COVID-19 HAS LED TO A WORRISOME UPTICK IN THE USE OF ELECTRONIC ANKLE MONITORSAMY NORDRUMOCTOBER 8, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUS
This monstrous medley gave birth to the macaroni style, the very climax of barbarism.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)
Tis funny to be thus of two civilisations—or, if you like, of one civilisation and one barbarism.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Perhaps the influence of the Berber blood in the population helps to prolong this barbarism.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUS
Every nation, even those which are but just emerging from barbarism, has its domestic animals.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME VII (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
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WORDS RELATED TO BARBARISM

  • barbarism
  • impropriety
  • indecorum
  • inelegance
  • infelicity
  • solecism
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