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barbarism

/bahr-buh-riz-uhm/US // ˈbɑr bəˌrɪz əm //UK // (ˈbɑːbəˌrɪzəm) //

野蛮,野蛮行为,野蛮生长,野蛮人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.
    • : a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition.
    • : the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language.
    • : such a form or construction: Some people consider “complected” as a barbarism.

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Examples

  • I write it out of shame, and identification that this kind of barbarism resonated with me as well.

  • Yet while it’s easy to think of the group through the lens of medieval barbarism, it is also showing smart tactical thinking in its military approach.

  • However, these stances relativistically position ankle monitors as “better than” incarceration, and avoid tough conversations about the barbarism of the devices themselves.

  • Barbarism,” said retired NYPD Officer Jim Smith on Thursday.

  • His sexual life, just like his barbarism, was the result of deliberation, not appetites run amok.

  • This war, said Poroshenko, is a “choice between civilization and barbarism.”

  • The difference now is that ISIS no longer depends on intermediaries to broadcast its barbarism.

  • “ISIS is pure barbarism, it is bloodthirsty,” Marchouch told The Daily Beast in an interview.

  • A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.

  • This monstrous medley gave birth to the macaroni style, the very climax of barbarism.

  • Tis funny to be thus of two civilisations—or, if you like, of one civilisation and one barbarism.

  • Perhaps the influence of the Berber blood in the population helps to prolong this barbarism.

  • Every nation, even those which are but just emerging from barbarism, has its domestic animals.