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Meanings of barbarous in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fell"
Examples for "fell"
1
National aspirations were encouraged, within limits; 'autonomy' fell far short of self-determination.
2
International rights groups said the vote fell well short of democratic standards.
3
However, in his tests, he said, the cases fell at different angles.
4
Easter fell in April this year but in late March last year.
5
Italy's services PMI fell below 50 for the second time this year.
1
They are corrupt; they are base; they are cowardly; they are cruel.
2
The cruel legal formalities were begun the first thing in the morning.
3
But he could be as cruel as the grave in other ways.
4
And They are cruel; cruelty is even in Their tread and expression.
5
And excessive fines have been imposed; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted.
1
The people were as truly savage as any South Sea Islanders .
2
The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
3
In her place was a savage thing made of fury and violence.
4
The image of God is defaced in the hearts of the savage.
5
The savage tribesmen burst in the door and crowded into the room.
1
The crisis forced authorities into a brutal cycle of interest rate hikes.
2
Farm killings are usually particularly brutal, the victims isolated -easy targets.
3
This year has been especially brutal for motorists and general consumers alike.
4
I condemn this brutal act of terrorism in the strongest possible terms.
5
This includes addressing the question of President Assad and his brutal regime.
1
The idea, of course, is to change the vicious cycle in Hollywood.
2
They were indeed preparing for war, a vicious and bloods earthbound war.
3
To the account of one of the most vicious killers in Europe.
4
Interests invariably fall asunder in the end; vicious natures can always agree.
5
The discord experienced specifically in Gauteng has led to vicious political infighting.
1
No government has a right to ride roughshod over their moral opposition.
2
Runs roughshod over people, uses and abuses them. Carla looked to Scott.
3
Nina's drive for perfection runs roughshod over her health and friendships.
4
Yet the Asians have ridden roughshod over more established western brands.
5
They're going to use it to run roughshod over the Agency.
Usage of barbarous in English
1
Modern Germany is far more scientific than England, and far more barbarous.
2
Such things are unknown even in the heart of barbarous Central Africa.
3
The germ of the barbarous system is there contained in its entirety.
4
The forest laws also in those early times were terrible and barbarous.
5
In short, the system of government, according to barbarous ideas was perfect.
6
In really wild, barbarous-sounding Orth, Crade said that this would be fine.
7
Every nation now civilized was in early days in a barbarous condition.
8
Never can the free German be the friend of the barbarous Sclavonian.
9
It had been barbarous prose; she had turned it into purest poetry.
10
The Danish invasions were not so barbarous now as in earlier days.
11
The New England people can have no idea of such barbarous policy.
12
In France, under the former Government, the punishments were not less barbarous.
13
A barbarous magnificence attended the feasts of the ancient monarchs of France.
14
The people were the poorest and most barbarous which he had met.
15
In barbarous times it is, in fact, cent, per cent., and more.
16
But he did not know the barbarous cruelty of the loving woman.
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Barbarous through the time
Barbarous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare