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barbarism

[bahr-buh-riz-uhm] / ˈbɑr bəˌrɪz əm /


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When World War I arrived, Galsworthy—like many humane Europeans of his generation who had believed that mass barbarism was becoming a thing of the past—was shattered.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

The Human Rights Commission of the Rio state legislature will demand "explanations" of how the favela was turned into a "theater of war and barbarism," commission head Dani Monteiro told AFP on Tuesday.

From Barron's Oct. 29, 2025

It was taken in 1863 and reproduced across the North during the Civil War as an example of the barbarism of slavery.

From Slate Sep. 24, 2025

Within weeks, Pablo Picasso’s painting “Guernica” was on public display, boosting global revulsion at such barbarism.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2025

"Sheer barbarism," he said, watching the bartender and lowering his voice to a whisper.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Did/do they really believe they help patients with such barbarisms?

From Scientific American May 16, 2012

A big problem for me as a children's football coach, however, is that these cliches and verbal barbarisms are all too often directed at children.

From The Guardian Jan. 31, 2011

Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

His writings have charged the West with soulless materialism and his fellow Africans with barbarisms and corruption.

From Time Magazine Archive

But neither did most of the civilizations that practiced those barbarisms.

From The Old Die Rich by Horace Leonard Gold




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