barbaric
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The transatlantic slave trade was a "brutal and barbaric violation" of enslaved people's rights, the UK leader added, offering a "structured dialogue with those affected".
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
The planned public display is, in a word, barbaric.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
What should the Jewish nation do at a site where barbaric crimes were committed against its people?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Vikings weren’t just “simple, uncivilized, barbaric hordes,” says historian after a huge 1,000-year-old textile production site was discovered.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
All that stands in the way of our assessment of our sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ancestors as cruel, barbaric monsters is what they produced in art, poetry, architecture and music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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