barbarous

Example Sentences

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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

He cited Philippine national hero Jose Rizal’s description of justice “as the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations while injustice arouses the weakest.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

The Vatican statement said the pope had made numerous "clear and unequivocal" condemnations of the war as one that is "morally unjustified, unacceptable, barbarous, senseless, repugnant and sacrilegious".

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022

They actually used words like "barbarous" and "despicable".

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro