Barbarously
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a barbarous manner.
"However, he comforted himself by giving very particular accounts of how his mistress had been barbarously murdered by banditti; and the good city talked incessantly of the murder, till set right next day by the greater marvel of the escape."
Adverb
- 1 in a barbarous manner wordnet
Example
More examples"However, he comforted himself by giving very particular accounts of how his mistress had been barbarously murdered by banditti; and the good city talked incessantly of the murder, till set right next day by the greater marvel of the escape."
Etymology
From barbarous + -ly.
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