BARBAROUS


Meaning of BARBAROUS in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He saw it now as his mission to establish similar normality in a barbarous land.

In many cases, perhaps, it simply meant that clergy and people were equally barbarous .

It might well be barbarous on either side of the jeweled door.

Of course we live in less barbarous times.

Still less was he interested in what he considered the barbarous traditions of the Anglo-Saxon Church which he found on his arrival.

They will also say that the Faroese method of killing whales is a barbarous way of treating an intelligent, warm-blooded mammal.

When the Persian ambassadors arrived at Athens, demanding tribute in their barbarous tongue, my heart filled with fury.

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