barbarous

Example Sentences

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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

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

"I consider it a barbarous crime for which there can be no forgiveness," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2022

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said “We will hit oligarchs and individuals closely associated with the Putin regime and his barbarous war.”

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2022

They’d put the bad mouth on their aunt’s first American day; you had to sweeten their noisy barbarous mouths.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston