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
“Years ago we suffered the war. We know it’s a barbarous thing.”
From New York Times
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the invasion as a "hideous and barbarous venture".
From BBC
Iconic images of the accused being burned alive were deployed in the propaganda wars that cast the Black struggle, depending on the teller, as either barbarous or suffused with its own fearsome justice.
From New York Times
It was seen by some as barbarous — tradition holds that senior statesmen get to write their own endings.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
