barbarous

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• say: Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous.
• call: They call the sun dance barbarous, savage, a bloody superstition.

Modifies a noun

• nation: For even in Africa we know of many barbarous nations using only one language.
• act: What sort of twisted mind is behind these barbarous acts of violence?
• manner: At which he was more enrag'd then before, and fell at me again in a most barbarous manner.
• war: They have done every thing, even thing that cannot be imagined, in a world that ended the legacy of barbarous war.
• age: They ridiculed as relics of a barbarous age the images and rituals of the Hindu religion.
• treatment: It also deplored the US's barbarous treatment of prisoners of war.

Modifying Another Word

• so: He could not allow himself to think that a general could be so barbarous.
• outright: Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
• very: Minor wrongs are redressed by dueling, and of a very barbarous form.

Used with adjective complement

become: Latin art seldom became barbarous, and in its best products it comes quite up to the level of Greek technical execution.