The word "barbarous" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is cruel and savage. For example: "The dictator's regime was characterized by its barbarous treatment of political dissidents."
Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, who came to be labeled the founder of Parnassianism, took a different approach in his Poèmes antiques (1852; "Antique Poems"), Poèmes barbares (1862; "Barbarous Poems"), and Poèmes tragiques (1884; "Tragic Poems").
This stipulates that those accused of massacres or other barbarous acts can benefit from a reduced sentence (of no more than eight years) if they confess and surrender illegally obtained assets.
Challenging the barbarous bits of the Shabab will take a strong stomach, as will striking deals with its moderate elements.
In fact, it sounded mild by comparison with his previous rants against the "barbarous" bail-out.
Mr Lifton then listens to people who have administered, witnessed or faced capital punishment, hearing equally from those who justify it and those who find it barbarous.
"Spain will not be considered a serious country until it abandons this barbarous pastime," says Francisco Umbral, a writer long active against bullfighting.
They cheered the judge, Jazmín Barrios, chanting her name and shouting: "Yes it was genocide!" To many of the Ixil Mayan people who told the court of barbarous massacres and rapes by soldiers during General Ríos Montt's 1982-83 dictheorship, the verdict represented an unprecedented triumph against impunity.The jubilation spread abroad.
Other penumbral events contribute to the image: barbarous policing; the alleged complicity of the government in torture.This is a caricature, of course.
To many others they remained shocking but somehow random acts of barbarous lunacy.
First, because killing Huddy without even the pretence of a trial had been "barbarous in the extreme, and most certainly demands redress".
Alexis Tsipras, leader of the radical left-wing Syriza, now the main opposition party in parliament, joined the demonstration, railing against "barbarous" measures imposed by international lenders.
