Sentence examples for downright barbaric from inspiring English sources

Some can be murderous, manipulative, seductive, deceitful, venomous, unscrupulous, sophisticated and downright barbaric.

Thanks for your comments on the American death penalty, but why not come right out and say that most Europeans regard our death penalty as medieval, if not downright barbaric!

But it's a disgrace that food banks are needed in the first place, patching up the holes left by an inefficient and downright barbaric attack on the meagre safety net of what remains of a notion of "social security".

But even among this crowd, the solutions on offer seemed either slightly simplistic ("Abolish money!") or downright barbaric ("Kill the Bankers!").

Many are writing columns and blogs about how Homeland has reinforced a downright barbaric stereotype of Pakistan.

The discourse became closed-minded, mean, petty, fearful, anti-intellectual, selfish, short-term, reactionary, cruel, and barbaric -- downright stupid and illiterate, which is where it mostly remains today.

"Civilized, barbaric.

Positively barbaric.

Barbaric, sure.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?