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What does barbaric mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilised, uncultured or uncouth.
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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.
Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
Some kids emerged as the true heirs of Whitman, barbaric yawpers singing their own songs of themselves.
Now if it is barbaric to flog in school where it really should start, how can licks be of any help to a hard-back criminal?
I also hope now more than I ever did during my life that people wake up to what a barbaric punishment this is.
The sati is the epitome of the obedient wife, but her burning is irredeemably barbaric.

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