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barbarism

[bahr-buh-riz-uhm] / ˈbɑr bəˌrɪz əm /


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From the vantage point of 2026, as we endure an unprecedented degree of barbarism at every level of society, we see how disastrous his prescriptions were.

From Salon Apr. 19, 2026

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

Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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

In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place among other vanquished barbarisms of our time."

From Time Magazine Archive

These barbarisms were quite common, at least in the East of Germany, after 1650, especially in Moravia, Bohemia, and Silesia.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav




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