barbarous

Example Sentences

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Al-Qaeda, broken for a while by an alliance between the Americans and Sunni tribes, regenerated into the even more barbarous IS.

From BBC

For some Scottish Lowlanders who saw the Gaelic-speaking Highlands as a barbarous backwater, the kilt had been regarded as the primitive dress of mountain thieves.

From BBC

Their verbal attacks feel like barbarous blows: “Your expressions are the buried side of a stone, moving with strange fetid life,” she fires at him.

From New York Times

Williams’s Nymphs are more barbarous than usual; his Faun, an innocent, doesn’t stand a chance and, in the end, is devoured by them.

From New York Times

"The people of Kibumba ... are facing a barbarous attack by the M23 with the support of Rwanda in flagrant violation of borders and agreements signed with Congo," the statement said.

From Reuters