Wild rivalries of savage, barbarous and civilized races.
The solitary pilgrim in barbarous lands halted and camped in remembrance of freedom.
To many others they remained shocking but somehow random acts of barbarous lunacy.
Although, certainly, it's better to refrain from intervening rather than doing anything outright barbarous.
That's as barbarous a morality as the ones you are condemning.
But this only proves again that history is ironic and that our barbarous species evolves in uneven ways.
Many died, and those who survived returned home with rustic manners and spoke the barbarous patois.
He viewed the region both as a barbarous source of potential riches and as a huge tract in pressing need of civilization.
Inanimate nature has proved more yielding than they imagined, human nature more stubborn and barbarous than they supposed.
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
British Dictionary definitions for barbarous
barbarous
/ˈbɑːbərəs/
adjective
1.
uncivilized; primitive
2.
brutal or cruel
3.
lacking refinement
Derived Forms
barbarously, adverb barbarousness, noun
Word Origin
C15: via Latin from Greek barbaros barbarian, non-Greek, in origin imitative of incomprehensible speech; compare Sanskrit barbara stammering, non-Aryan
Word Origin and History for barbarous
adj.
c.1400, "uncivilized, uncultured, ignorant," from Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros (see barbarian). Meaning "not Greek or Latin" (of words or language) is from c.1500; that of "savagely cruel" is from 1580s.