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barbarously

Variant of barbarous

adjective

  1. Obsolete foreign or alien; in the ancient world, non-Greek, non-Roman, or non-Christian
  2. characterized by substandard usages in speaking or writing
  3. characteristic of barbarians; primitive or lacking in civilization
  4. uncultured, crude, coarse, rough, etc.
  5. cruel; brutal
  6. harsh in sound; raucous

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