barbarous

• She, I believed, in spite of fair face and evidences of culture, was as vindictive, barbarous, and relentless as the wildest in that savage band Over and over I turned such unhappy thoughts in my seething brain, until the faintest sound from without had died away. —  Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France
• His disposition had always been to regard such a thing as barbarous, and he had never taken advantage of his skill with the gloves as the average man might very probably have done. —  The Courage of Marge O'Doone
• To the XVIIIth Dynasty Egyptian it would no doubt have seemed hopelessly old-fashioned and even semi-barbarous, and he had no qualms about sweeping it aside whenever it appeared in the way of the work of his own time; but to us this very strangeness gives additional charm and interest, and we can only be thankful that Mertisen's work has lasted (in fragments only, it is true) to our own day, to tell us the story of a little known chapter in the history of ancient Egyptian art From this description it will have been seen that the temple is an important monument of the Egyptian art and architecture of the Middle Kingdom. —  History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery
• The style of Pseudo-Jonathan is barbarous, abounding in foreign words, with the introduction of many legends, fables, and ideas of a later age. —  Companion to the Bible
• I pointed out that this was barbarous, and would be punishing a man's innocent family for his actions. —  The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs

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