What does barbaric mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilised, uncultured or uncouth.
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
Widespread as it may be, it is nevertheless a way of thinking that is profoundly amoral, unethical and indeed barbaric.
Call me heartless, barbaric, unforgiving, or what you will, but I can not understand this attitude at all.
No. To me the idea that words or taunts can enrage somebody to kill and act out of anger, and our judicial system says that's okay, is barbaric.
British psychiatrists viewed manacles and leg irons as barbaric symbols of the asylum's dubious past.
Gripping the Ruler with two hands, he launched himself at the demon with a barbaric yawp.

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