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词汇 barbaric
释义 barbaric
adjective
uk /bɑːˈbær.ɪk/ us /bɑːrˈber.ɪk/
extremely cruel and unpleasant: 残暴的;野蛮的;粗俗的
She found the idea of killing animals for pleasure barbaric.她觉得为了取乐而猎杀动物的想法非常残忍。
barbaric acts of violence野蛮的暴力行为
Synonyms
barbarousformal
brutal
callous
cruel
despotic
hard(SEVERE)
harsh(UNKIND)
inhuman
sadistic
savage
vicious
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not kind to someone or something and causing pain
cruelTeasing them for being overweight is cruel.
callousHe had a callous disregard for the feelings of others.
cold-bloodedThe budget is based on a cold-blooded analysis of the markets.
ruthlessHe was a ruthless dictator.
heartlessHe has been described as a heartless boss by several employees.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
cutthroat
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
mordant
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian

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barbarically

barbaric | American Dictionary


barbaric
adjective
us/bɑrˈbær·ɪk/(alsobarbarous, us/ˈbɑr·bər·əs/)
extremely cruel:
barbaric behavior/practices

Examples of barbaric


barbaric
Again, it is true that some critics denounced all ceremony as irrational and barbaric at worse, and expensive at best.
Such dichotomies included good\\evil, capitalist\\communist, moral\\amoral, religious\\irreligious, barbaric\\civilized, imperialist\\liberationist.
Terms such a 'barbaric', 'primitive' and 'uncivilised' laced the forest literature of the period.
The furmongers continue their barbaric trade to satisfy this demand.
By experiencing manly behavior as an instinctive expression of his body, the barbaric hero finds his fulfillment suddenly, fitfully, in moments of stress.
They were heading for a new civilization leaving behind the now barbaric city (p. 215).
In particular, isn't it needlessly barbaric to insist that punishment be painful?
After all, if all we are doing when we punish is identifying crimes as wrongs it seems unnecessarily barbaric to insist that we do so by inflicting pain.
As civic authority slowly established itself with government encouragement and the guano boom, the walls served as protection for the civilizing city from the barbaric bandits outside.
Cultivated and barbaric music-making converge.
Lost world fiction represents a momentous revision of both masculine codes and imperial ambitions, which come to reinforce and express one another through a celebration of impassioned barbaric might.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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