barbarism

Example Sentences

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The Human Rights Commission of the Rio state legislature will demand "explanations" of how the favela was turned into a "theater of war and barbarism," commission head Dani Monteiro told AFP on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

But these veterans had actually done that and won, and remain now as some of the last representatives of a generation that fought Nazism and all of the intolerance and barbarism that represented.

From BBC • May 5, 2025

“This barbarism cannot continue,” Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, the leading opposition candidate for president, wrote on X. “An urgent change is needed to the security policy of the federal government.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

“We can’t allow Hamas’s barbarism to rob us of our humanity,” he tweeted.

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2023

Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson