barbarous

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bar‧bar‧ous/ˈbɑːbərəs $ ˈbɑːr-/ adjective
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Latin; Origin : barbarus, from Greek barbaros 'foreign']
1. extremely cruel in a way that is shocking SYN barbaric:
　 ▪ The trade in exotic birds is barbarous.

2. wild and not civilized:
　 ▪ a savage barbarous people

—barbarously adverb

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.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious