barbarous

Employees are reluctant to complain about this barbarous mistreatment.

Everyone was looking at the culprit, the younger staff in shock, his peers with shades of anger, Saron faintly smiling, barbarous with his own power.

These days, Mexican leaders and many others label Cortés as barbarous — even genocidal — while Moctezuma often gets a pass as a righteous leader caught in the headwinds of history.

The prime minister recalled feeling "a sickness" and "air of desolation" as he tried to make sense of "the enormity of this barbarous, planned, industrialised murder".

Jay stayed for three-and-a-half years, working for a man he later described as "barbarous" but insisting he managed to shield himself from lasting damage.