savagery

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

Examples of barbarism

barbarism
A good writer, or speaker, knows a barbarism when he sees one, and realises that not all of them are malignant.
In its more extreme versions it carried racial implications by counterposing civilization (positive) with barbarism (negative).
Barbarism is made and remade - by popular culture no less than by governments - and it can be unmade.
By exalting strife, contention, and bitterness, the tendency of militarism was toward regression and barbarism.
Imperial contact between developmentally distinct cultures promises to accelerate "advancement" of the colonized from barbarism to civilization.
As it had been in the past, the possession of certain objects was the indication of each individual's identity in terms of civilisation and barbarism.
The circle that mankind must tread, is sufficiently limited and, despite the great standstill that barbarism effected, has more than once completed its course.
The works reviewed cover concepts of civilization and barbarism, order and progress which still pepper our modern political discourse.
Despite official complacency, disquiet about the ' methods of barbarism ' employed in the 1950s as in the 1900s seeped into metropolitan debate.
Understood as markers of racialised human difference, barbarism and savagery meant that the (sub)human costs of this profit making enterprise could be dismissed.
It is difficult to say whether its five panels portray an epic of progress or of regress into barbarism.
It is not true that nothing can resist the barbarism of history.
That is where the essentialising starts and, in the process, the line between multiculturalism and the new racism (or new barbarism) is often blurred.
He understood that true culture is always the best answer to barbarism.
Both petitions are built around a rhetorical opposition between civilization and barbarism.
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