BARBARIC


Meaning of BARBARIC in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a barbaric custom

the barbaric treatment of civilians in the concentration camps

the barbaric treatment of women prisoners

We consider the death penalty to be barbaric .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Attack and reprisal-increasingly barbaric and brutal by turn-have marked the conflict since then.

Is the Buddhist practice any less barbaric ?

Most of them were from the barbaric tribes nearer the frozen Hub, which had a sort of export trade in heroes.

The river was despotic and barbaric , ruling over its subjects without mercy.

This procedure, as barbaric as it is, is not done by governments.

Until recently, the great objective was to free the peasants from the barbaric constraints of Nature.

Wine was carefully mixed with water, because drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric .

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