barbarous
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
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.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2024
One critic, João Ribeiro — a prominent folklorist himself — called it “voluntarily barbarous, primeval, an assortment of disconnected fragments put together by a commentator incapable of any coordination.”
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
He cited Philippine national hero Jose Rizal’s description of justice “as the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations while injustice arouses the weakest.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023
They actually used words like "barbarous" and "despicable".
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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