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barbarian

a member of a primitive or uncivilized people

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Lady Barbarity is far too good a mare to have her knees broken."

But it is needless to multiply the examples of civilized barbarity; they far exceed in the amount of misery they cause the crimes which we regard with such abhorrence in our less enlightened fellow-creatures.

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The barbarity of this spectacle caused the people to be at once satisfied and dismayed.

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"Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.

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It is regrettable that Indian stubbornness and barbarity has threatened the regional peace, he added.

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She said Indian oppression and barbarity in the held valley is addition of an unfortunate chapter in the human history.

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In a statement, the Chief Minister said that further silence of international human rights bodies, on the barbarity and savagery of Indian occupied forces, would be a criminal negligence.

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They strongly condemned the barbarity being let loose on the unarmed innocent Kashmiri men and women and called upon the government to give befitting reply to the Indian Prime Minister Modi for repealing Article 35-A and 370 for annexing Indian Occupied Kashmir with India.

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Shaukat Yousufzai said the entire world is seeing Indian barbarity. India cannot abrogate the special status of Kashmir.

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Philippine security forces are fearing a possible 'chilling escalation in tactics, damage and barbarity' of terrorists after the reported collapse of the ISIS / Daesh in Syria and Iraq.

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One year later, I write to express my anger not just with the Republican politicians and the voters that continue to sanction and support such barbarity, but with the Democrats who recently gave the agencies responsible billions of dollars in federal funding.

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'Both Pakistani masses and Pakistani government condemn the barbarity and cruelty on Kashmiri people and always have close integrity for the cause of Kashmiris', he said.