barbarous
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We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
But the gains in that barbarous relic, gold, have surpassed the AI-powered stock bull run.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
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
One critic, João Ribeiro — a prominent folklorist himself — called it “voluntarily barbarous, primeval, an assortment of disconnected fragments put together by a commentator incapable of any coordination.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
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
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