barbarous
Speech parts
1. barbarous - Adjective
2. barbarous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
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Examples
a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
vicious kicks