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

"I will fight this barbarous and inhumane practice - just the thought of it makes me sick."

From BBC • Sep. 22, 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

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

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2022

It was a barbarous thing, a blind clayey hole with folding chairs for the family teetering on one side and raw dirt heaped on the other.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt