as in savage
not civilized
people who were regarded as barbarian by the ancient Romans
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as in primitive
an uncivilized person
the invading Germanic tribes were viewed as barbarians by the citizens of ancient Rome
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Recent Examples of barbarian
Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
Rodriguez added yet another badass role to her résumé as the barbarian Holga in 2023’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
—EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
The state begins as a solution for barbarians, then becomes a problem for intellectuals.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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This means that from 1860 onwards, Argentina went from being a barbarian country to becoming the leading global power in 35 years, embracing the ideas of liberty.
—Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
Rodriguez added yet another badass role to her résumé as the barbarian Holga in 2023’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
—EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
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Most people refer to him as a barbarian, so Fuji certainly has her prejudices at the beginning.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
The state begins as a solution for barbarians, then becomes a problem for intellectuals.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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The 2023 grand marshal is former Arizona Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, gravely wounded in a savage mass shooting in 2011 that also killed six people.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
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As savage Arctic cold was getting ready to surge south across North America, vivid imagery based on data from weather models showed us what was going to happen.Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
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Burlington Antique Show Browse more than 200 dealers of antiques, vintage jewelry, primitives, garden and architectural elements, mid-century collectibles, memorabilia, Americana and retro/vintage furniture at this monthly outdoor antique market.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2024
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It can be used to achieve a lot of other cryptographic primitives.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
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Apparently, my daughter didn’t finish all of the food on her plate, and the mom felt that was incredibly rude and a sign of poor manners.Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Those who participated in the creative exercises felt more social closeness with their coworkers, and were less likely to engage in rude behavior.Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The only wild bears in the San Bernardino Mountains or anywhere else in the state are black bears, according to the Fish and Wildlife Department.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The former stone church has stone pathways and wild gardens as shown in this listing photo.Clio Chang, Curbed, 8 Nov. 2024
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Sudanese who took the same route with other smugglers say they were subjected to barbaric conditions on the journey.Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024
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The two-and-a-half-hour film follows two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida.Anna Tingley, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
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Experts told PolitiFact such narratives painting Haiti as a barbarous country are not new and are racist attempts to dehumanize Haitians.Jeff Cercone, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Sep. 2024
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Treating barbarous body horror as something embedded in us deeper than the mutual love of a partner, especially when it’s done without the theatrical or exploitation trappings, makes for one of the New French Extremity’s most troubling works.Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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Under the Omanis, Zanzibar grew rich selling spices, ivory, and slaves, mostly non-Muslims from the interior, whom the island’s élites derided as washenzi, or uncivilized.Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
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Forcing a woman to choose between jail and carrying her rapist's baby is uncivilized and medieval.CNN, CNN, 27 June 2022
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“Barbarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarian. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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