barbarousness

NOUN
  1. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
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How To Use barbarousness In A Sentence

  • The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
  • It's a passionate, daring and unflinching look at the barbarousness of war.
  • Babits was a classicist: the legacy of Greece and Rome meant more to him than what he felt was the barbarousness of the Old Testament.
  • Or maybe it was just Tolkien, sickened by the barbarousness of the 20th century, yearning for the certainties of a lost England that possibly never existed anyway.
  • But we being straightway moved by your tears gave you the breast of grammar to suck, which ye plied continually with teeth and tongue, until ye lost your native barbarousness and learned to speak with our tongues the mighty things of God. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • 'It's their culture innit' seems to be the yardstick whether it's about 9/11 or the state of play around the world where Islamists are intent on wrecking the status quo in favour of their medieval seventh century barbarousness. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • One picked it up at random to chuckle over its wicked insights, its barbed phrases, and its corrosive view of society in which elements of ridiculousness, cruelty, and barbarousness nestled in close juxtaposition with things taken for granted and worn smooth with custom and careless handling. The Worldly Philosophers
  • A Londoner by birth and inclination, he couldn't stand ‘the barbarousness and insipid dulnesse of the Country’.
  • No less sincerely did they consider the Soviet regime to be a product of the backwardness and barbarousness of Russian conditions.
  • The Goth tribe was famous for its barbarousness, fierceness and sanguinariness, which was quite similar to the darkness European Middle Age.
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