barbarous

Example Sentences

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Al-Qaeda, broken for a while by an alliance between the Americans and Sunni tribes, regenerated into the even more barbarous IS.

From BBC

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

Eyewitness testimony indicated that he had been the so-called Ivan the Terrible, an especially barbarous guard at the Treblinka camp.

From New York Times

Cruelty, he said "implies … something inhuman and barbarous, something more than the mere extinguishment of life."

From Salon

The Milwaukee Journal reported that she claimed McAllister subjected her to “cruel and barbarous treatment and indignities.”

From Washington Post