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[ UK /bɑːbˈæɹɪti/ ]
[ US /bɑɹˈbæɹəti, bɑɹˈbɛɹəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. a brutal barbarous savage act
  2. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

How To Use barbarity In A Sentence

  • It is feared the two fanatical groups will try to outdo each other in barbarity to gain the upper hand. The Sun
  • Felipe Calderon went on Twitter to express dismay over what he called an "aberrant act of terror and barbarity. News - latimes.com
  • The article expresses a horror at the 'barbarity' of the 'unmeaning mummeries, dishonest debt, profuse waste, and bad example in an utter oblivion of responsibility'.
  • This impertinent and malicious insinuation made some impression upon the bystanders, and furnished ample field for slander to asperse the morals of Trunnion, who was represented through the whole district as a monster of barbarity. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • Without the culture of the Public Service, there will only be barbarity in this place.
  • The barbarity of the old regime was eventually exposed.
  • Of course superstition is at the bottom of this barbarity; the same which a generation ago made the silly accoucheur refuse to give ether because of the divine (?) saying “In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • As France was at that time involved in the calamities of a religious war, this act of barbarity had remained unresented, had not a single man of Mont Marfan, named Dominique de History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
  • Plenty of modern film-makers have attempted to emulate the blithe barbarity that lent Ealing comedies their sharp aftertaste.
  • But upon his return to Europe he began to see the old continent with American eyes and from the alienating distance of his exile he noticed all the more strongly the barbarity of its remaining peculiarities.
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