Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a barbarous manner; as a barbarian
  • As an uncivilized, illiterate, or uncultured person. Savagely; cruelly; ferociously; inhumanly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a barbarous manner.

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  • adverb In a barbarous manner.

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  • adverb in a barbarous manner

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Examples

  • Greek word barbarously corrupted; H+aM+uN+aX+M% was the word he employed to this purpose.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Whereupon they prayed that the Romans would have compassion upon the [poor] remains of Judea, and not expose what was left of them to such as barbarously tore them to pieces, and that they would join their country to Syria, and administer the government by their own commanders, whereby it would [soon] be demonstrated that those who are now under the calumny of seditious persons, and lovers of war, know how to bear governors that are set over them, if they be but tolerable ones.

    The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709

  • We of to-day cannot realize the barbarously filthy and slavish lives of those that lived prior to 1925.

    Goliah 2010

  • Elizabeth, — of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, — tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.

    Chapter 20 2010

  • Elizabeth, — of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, — tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone.

    The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters: Book summary 2010

  • The Poonga-Poonga volunteers stood with glistening eyes and grinning faces, naked save for their loin-cloths, and barbarously ornamented.

    Chapter 23 2010

  • "But how could you, Leith," I cried, the picture of the consumptive lad strong before me, "how could you treat him so barbarously?"

    Local Color 2010

  • Nay, there is a signal of our enemies 'destruction visible, and that a very great one also; and this is not a natural one, nor derived from the hand of foreigners neither, but it is this, that they have barbarously murdered our ambassadors, contrary to the common law of mankind; and they have destroyed so many, as if they esteemed them sacrifices for God, in relation to this war.

    Speech by Herod the Great to the Jews 2010

  • Addressing Benedict, the head of Cyprus 'Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said that "Turkey has barbarously invaded and conquered by force of arms 37 percent of our homeland."

    Pope On 3-Day Visit To Cyprus 2010

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