0 extremely cruel or unpleasant, or failing to reach acceptable social standards: --
His murder was an outrageous and barbarous act.
1 characteristic of people who have no experience of the habits and culture of modern life, and whose behavior you therefore consider strange --
The diggers continued in their brutal and barbarous way.
We all repudiate the right of people to inflict barbarous and inhuman punishment on their own children.
This barbarous and, at the same time, grotesque regime must be contained.
Were my informants trying to put the best possible face on a local practice likely to appear 'barbarous' to a foreign interlocutor and so much at odds with mainstream practice?
All of these refer to jahiliyya as a historical period except - chap. 6, para. 112 ("ignorant"), and chap. 7, para. 67 (translated "barbarous", but the historical reference is implicit).
Longs and shorts will not have to make those cruel concessions, those barbarous sacrifices of which composers and singers, it must be admitted, take so little notice.
I have a feeling, however, that it may be an utterly revolting and barbarous usage to anyone like yourself who has a finer feeling for language than we have.
Advocates of the indianesque embraced pre-conquest history as an essential component of independent identity, while conservatives rejected it as a barbarous time preceding the arrival of true civilisation.
