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barbarously

ADVERB
brutally
Synonyms
STRONGEST
ferociously fiercely mercilessly relentlessly ruthlessly savagely viciously
WEAK
atrociously barbarically brutishly callously demoniacally diabolically ferally hardheartedly heartlessly in cold blood inexorably inhumanely inhumanly meanly murderously pitilessly remorselessly something fierce something terrible unkindly unrelentingly
Antonyms
WEAK
gently humanely kindly nicely
ADVERB
rudely
Synonyms
STRONGEST
bluntly crudely harshly
STRONG
discourteously
WEAK
boorishly brazenly coarsely contemptuously crassly curtly disrespectfully imprudently indecently indecorously insolently loudly roughly sassily sharply snootily tactlessly unabashedly uncivilly uncouthly ungraciously vulgarly
Antonyms
WEAK
civilly courteously politely suavely

Example Sentences

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The hero of the Oscar-nominated film “EO” is a soulful, barbarously misused donkey.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

The Oscar-nominated film “EO” features as its hero a soulful, barbarously misused donkey.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Photograph: William Richards A barbarously sticky afternoon in Jamaica and I'm in Kingston inside a windowless room with a low ceiling and brown carpet on the walls watching five old men.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2010

If the right not to be barbarously treated was recognized, could other rights be far behind?

From Time Magazine Archive

I think on the Collegians, returned to their gaunt house, which hath, I suppose, been barbarously used lately by His Majesty’s troops, and is like to be in no excellent state of repair.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson