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Barbarous

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Barbarous meaning

Not classical or pure. | Uncivilized, uncultured. | Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.

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But Hamas murdered 1,400 including women and children in the most barbarous ways and intentionally intermingled among civilians including in hospitals and refugee camps.

In 1924 he described it as a ‘barbarous relic’.

Those barbarous incidents of racism will remain with me for as long as I live.

It makes former Senate President Olusola Saraki appear like one with a halo for simply scuttling the barbarous counsel that would have made the draconian bills such disturbers of the peace in the Eight Senate.

The practice reached Britain and North America early in the 18th century, but many established medical authorities were skeptical that what were seen as barbarous peoples could contribute anything to medical knowledge.

There they justified and boasted of their barbarous criminal acts against Azerbaijanis in Khojaly.

In 1924, the seminal macro -economist, John Maynard Keynes, called the gold standard (and by proxy gold) “a barbarous relic”.

Meanwhile, the ‘barbarous relic’ has had total supply growth of just 35% during that period.

Mrs Mba’s assailants were reported to have ripped her open and went away with her unborn baby, a development Senator Nnamani described as barbarous and horrendous.

Too many intellectuals sold their integrity, principles and conscience to serve the dictates of tyrannical and barbarous African regimes.

Tribute to six farmers killed in this barbarous firing.

While the movies he appears in aren't very well-received, the two millennial Halloween remakes helmed by Rob Zombie () feature the most barbarous villain of the entire franchise.

In their barbarous conquest of “America” the United States made over five hundred treaties with the Native Americans.

Crusoe represents the "enlightened" European whilst Friday is the "savage" who can only be redeemed from his barbarous way of life through assimilation into Crusoe's culture.

Every instant of time in every province of the Roman world was afflicted by military tyrants and barbarous invaders — the sword from within and without.

Henceforth our youth who tread thy flowery way, Shall ne'er from rules of proper diction stray; No more their speech with barbarous terms be filled No more their pens a crop of nonsense yield.

His kinsman, John Mark, who was a spectator of this barbarous action, privately interred his body.

In one letter, he described Ireland as "a barbarous country where chemical spirits were so misunderstood and chemical instruments so unprocurable that it was hard to have any Hermetic thoughts in it." quoted in Silver, Brian.

Introduction of Robert Fagles' translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey In support of his claim, Johnson also called Gaelic the rude speech of a barbarous people, and said there were no manuscripts in it more than 100 years old.

I really think that among barbarous nations there can be none that has more natural goodness than the Japanese.