Barbarism

//ˈbɑɹbəˈɹɪzm̩//

"Barbarism" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Socialism or barbarism.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

"The day pulls to a close" is a barbarism, possibly entirely opaque if you fail to recognize it as a translation of "The day draws to a close."

We have begun our slow collapse into barbarism.

With Netanyahu, Israel is regressing into barbarism.

Does barbarism mean the people who cut hair?

No century of pure barbarism has ever considered itself barbaric, but each of them has still believed to be the flower of centuries and the most perfect era of the human spirit and society.

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These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.

Like dancing, it is a remnant of ancient barbarism—fit for the days of the Chaldeans or the Babylonians, when people were only amused through their eyes—the sole entertainment of which savage nations are susceptible.

War is at best barbarism... Its glory is all moonshine.

In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.

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