barbarism

[ US /ˈbɑɹbɝˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /bˈɑːbɑːɹˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a brutal barbarous savage act
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How To Use barbarism In A Sentence

  • And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
  • Inevitably, you must wonder whether barbarism is the natural condition of man let loose, or the depraved state of man when corrupted by violence.
  • All in a huss (Barbarism for “hustle & bustle”, just conjugated differently to fit the context there), I popped my Claritin, grabbed my water bottle (don't leave home without it) and flung the door open. Moments
  • The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place.
  • They were still a breech-cloth people, wearing this rag of barbarism as the unmistakable evidence of their condition; and the family was in the syndyasmian or pairing form, with separation at any moment at the option of either party. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
  • I cannot see that this represents anything but a preference for barbarism.
  • Their act of foundation was ‘the bright strong line between desolate barbarism and busy civilisation’.
  • All peace loving Zambians must condemn such acts of barbarism.
  • From the official perspective, the issue was simple: barbarism versus civilization.
  • These fastidious, and sometimes fantastic ceremonies, originally devised as the very extremities of anti-barbarism, were often themselves but too nearly allied in spirit to the barbaresque in taste. The Caesars
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