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Adjective: barbarous  baa(r)-bu-rus
  1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
    "a barbarous crime";
    - brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
     
  2. Primitive in customs and culture

See also: inhumane, noncivilised [Brit], noncivilized

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