barbarously

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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

He aims at a much broader and more elusive quarry: the nature of--and the impediments to--religious faith at the end of the technologically advanced and barbarously blood-soaked 20th century.

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