barbarous
/ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹəs/ adjectif C2En français : barbare, sauvage, cruel
- Not classical or pure.
- Uncivilized, uncultured.
- Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
- Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
Dans la bibliothèque
Bingley, from this time, was of course a daily visitor at Longbourn; coming frequently before breakfast, and always remaining till after supper; unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner, which he thought himself obliged to accept.
“Let Memphis cease to boast the barbarous miracles of her pyramids, and the wonders of Babylon be talked of no more among us; all must bow to the superiority of the gigantic labor of the Cæsars, and the many voices of Fame spread far and wide the surpassing merits of this incomparable monument.”
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