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.
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
"I will fight this barbarous and inhumane practice - just the thought of it makes me sick."
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
The Vatican statement said the pope had made numerous "clear and unequivocal" condemnations of the war as one that is "morally unjustified, unacceptable, barbarous, senseless, repugnant and sacrilegious".
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
