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Synonyms for barbarous

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Synonyms for barbarous

showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint

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Synonyms for barbarous

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

primitive in customs and culture

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But of course they treated him barbarously. I said to Stricker, "This doesn't surprise me one bit." Stricker is a great apologist for the British.
But despite her own terrifying ordeal she says nothing compares with the memory of having to watch her friend being barbarously murdered, the horrendous images of which are now forever seared into her memory.
M A D I N A / M E L - BOURNE/TEHRAN -- A Saudi little boy, while on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina with his Shiite mother, has been barbarously killed for unknown reasons, fuelling speculations that he could have been a sectarian and hate crime victim, media reports said.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- A Saudi little boy, while on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina with his Shia mother, has been barbarously killed for unknown reasons, fueling speculations that he could have been a sectarian and hate crime victim, according to media reports.
After passing FATA merger bill, police are frequently raiding the area like wild animals and treating the people barbarously.
"It was hard to believe," Charriere wrote, "that a country like mine, France, the cradle of liberty for the entire world, the land which gave birth to the Rights of Man, would maintain, even in French Guiana, on a tiny island lost in the Atlantic, an installation as barbarously repressive as the Reclusion of Saint-Joseph." Does that not apply to the American facility at Guantanamo Bay?
Armenia is barbarously exploiting natural resources in the occupied Azerbaijani territories and is causing environmental damage to these lands, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's acting spokeswoman Leyla Abdullayeva said.
It remembers "a whole family most barbarously murdered at Mid-Day AD 1847".
Thus, "the question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that capital punishment is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in the light of all information presently available." (48) Marshall believed that if the available facts were known, "the average citizen would ...
Nelson Mandela, who knew a thing or two about national struggle, once said: "There is no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats children." And no child in the world has suffered more grievously - indeed more barbarously - than those living under Israel's rule of the gun.
The account said: "They pursued the rest in fields and lanes, cutting and most barbarously mangling naked men to the number of 15 men, one woman, another being shot, and many hurt, many men sore wounded.
Many current treatments will come to be considered ineffective or misguided, but I believe, and certainly hope, that treatments that are gratuitously illogical or barbarously cruel and painful are relics of the past.
"Aided and abetted by a short-sighted Federal farm policy," the authors write, "Big Ag treats cows barbarously, even as it ruins some of the best soil on the planet, destroys irreplaceable aquifers, fills the air with warming gases, and creates enormous dead zones at the mouths of rivers."
frequently and as barbarously as their enemies." Id.