barbarous

[US]/ˈbɑːbərəs/
[UK]/ˈbɑːrbərəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. savage, cruel, uncivilized, uncouth, foreign.

Phrases & Collocations

barbarous behavior

barbarous treatment

Example Sentences

a remote and barbarous country.

committed a barbarous crime.

It is barbarous to call at 5 a.m.

She received the most barbarous treatment.

It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.

They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities.

many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards.

From Alexander the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression;

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