barbarism

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

Isaac Geldhart, the imperious protagonist of Jon Robin Baitz’s “The Substance of Fire,” is waging a losing battle against the forces of cultural barbarism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024

As European nation-states descended into industrial-scale barbarism in the second half of the 1930s, musicians in these countries were placed in a difficult position.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

If we are to have a rising generation of good talkers, by our own choice and deliberate aim social intercourse should be freed from the barbarisms which so often hamper it.

From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Mary Greer Conklin