Word Finder - barbaric

definition

Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth

example

Killing doctors is barbaric.

His rugged features were unshaven, giving him the same barbaric appearance as those around him.

The barbaric elements were judiciously screened from view as a "mystery"; they were, indeed, here and there explicitly disavowed even by the initiated.

A strange barbaric chant commonly known as the Lorica or Hymn of St Patrick is preserved in the Liber hymnorum.

A barbaric ' sport ' only practiced by the upper class twits.

The people were as bedraggled as any of the barbaric clans around Tiyan.

We are so barbaric here that we execute the mentally retarded people.

I don't want to sound barbaric, but let me tell you, it is stimulating.

Although influenced by Hellenism, he is a loyal Jew, earnestly desirous that all who profess the same faith should adhere to it in spite of either Greek allurements or barbaric persecution.

Chandragupta himself is described as living in barbaric splendour, appearing in public only to hear causes, offer sacrifice, or to go on military and hunting expeditions, and withal so fearful of assassination that he never slept two nights running in the same room.

I thought the stories of your barbaric forefathers threatening to destroy Anshan were bluffs.

Our country is still very backward, still very barbaric.

Not satisfied with this myth, the Aryans of India accounted for the origin of species in the following barbaric style.

The style of the sculptures on the frieze is quite barbaric, with archaic elements, and is probably derived from Gaul.

The Council had only thought the Anshan rulers barbaric enough to threaten to blow up the only source of ore.

Barbaric murder is barbaric murder is barbaric murder, I don't care where you grew up.

It is particularly barbaric to allow turkeys with chronic leg disorders to be hung upside down by their legs for a full six minutes.

It's brutal, even barbaric, yet one can't help watching it with some sort of appreciative grin.

Beside, it's pretty barbaric really, isn't it?

While the last option seems barbaric, that's exactly what some parents do when their child's life is in danger.

In the minds of many people the concept of running for your life is a very powerful image and is considered barbaric.

The faint of heart should be prepared for the brutal, barbaric beatings that Christ endures.

This barbaric trade poses a serious threat to the survival of the wild chimpanzee.

The Chinese Government and people hereby express their utmost indignation and stern condemnation and lodge the strongest protest against this barbaric atrocity.

Or maybe the whole thing just reeks of the barbaric... Will this stop people dying for things they believe in?

The magical papyri teem with strings of senseless and barbaric words which probably answer to what certain of the Fathers called the language of demons.

McGillivray was polished in manners, of cultivated intellect, was a shrewd merchant, and a successful speculator; but he had many savage traits, being noted for his treachery, craftiness and love of barbaric display.

By a fortunate coincidence, at the very moment when this bankruptcy of the old culture must have become apparent, the stage of history was occupied by barbaric peoples.

The modern movement in favour of industrial employment combined with humane and intelligent considerations has swept away the more or less barbaric method of enforcing labour by automatic machinery such as the treadmill, crank and shot drill (see Treadmill).

Our theory is, therefore, that the savage and senseless element in mythology is, for the most part, a legacy from ancestors of the civilized races who were in an intellectual state not higher than that of Australians, Bushmen, Red Indians, the lower races of South America, Mincopies, and other worse than barbaric peoples.

Certainly some of the medical practices of the ancient world, such as bloodletting and the use of leeches, seem to us at least misguided and at worst, barbaric.

At our Center the refugees of this barbaric trade are rehabilitated into natural living groups.

The Israeli government is a barbaric regime that is systematically destroying vestiges of Palestinian self-rule.

Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it was n't bloody and barbaric.

Another legend has it that Italian monks, also invaded by what is described as a "barbaric" people, fled from their native Italy to France, also bringing Pinot Noir vine cuttings with them.

Many practices now deemed cruel or barbaric, such as lobotomies, were performed at The Ridges.

Here Bessus was at last Invasion of caught and treated with the barbaric cruelty which the rule of the old Persian monarchy prescribed for Indla.

The empires of Turks and Avars, however, ran swiftly their barbaric course, and the Khazars arose out of the chaos to more than their ancient renown.

In 1858 a most remarkable discovery was made near Toledo, of eight gold crowns of the 7th century, fashioned lavishly with barbaric splendour.

The most favoured areas were those where corn and other plants could be artificially produced, and there barbaric cultures were elaborated.

In his antipathy to Christianity, which appears to him barbaric and superstitious, he gives himself up to the scepticism and satire of a man of the world through which he comes in contact with Epicurean tendencies."

It has greatly declined from the state of barbaric prosperity which it enjoyed from 1788 to 1822, when it was the seat of Ali Pasha, and was estimated to have from 30,000 to 50,000 inhabitants.

These divinities, however, seem to have had little or no place in the popular faith, which was occupied by polytheistic gods of the ordinary barbaric type.

The chiefs of the clans, with a few sub-chiefs having hereditary rights, formed the King's Council, and the king, unless of exceptionally strong character, often exercised less power than the council of chiefs, each of whom kept his little court, making a profuse display of barbaric pomp. Land is held in common by the tribes, lands unallotted being attached to the office of head chief or king and called "stool lands."

Prehistoric.The earliest civilized population of Egypt was highly skilled in mechanical accuracy and regularity, but had little sense of organic forms. They kept the unfinished treatment of the limbs and extremities which is so characteristic of most barbaric art; and the action was more considered than the form.

The coinage of a succeeding king, Hermaeus, indicates a barbaric irruption.

Savage and barbaric religions recognize it, and the mythology of the world has hardly a more universal theme.

Although the three divisions of savage, barbaric, and civilized man do not correspond at all perfectly with the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, this classification of civilization has proved of extraordinary value in arranging in their proper order of culture the nations of the Old World.

The whole history of the country is in fact one gloomy record of internecine wars, barbaric deeds and unstable governments, of adventurers usurping thrones, only to be themselves unseated, and of raids, rapine and pillage.

The dead are borne to the grave with uncovered faces, and a Rumanian funeral is a scene of much barbaric display.

There were no good men in Landis's barbaric armies, not even Vara!