BARBAROUS

• (adj.) primitive in customs and culture

• (adj.) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

  "a barbarous crime", "brutal beatings", "cruel tortures", "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks", "a savage slap", "vicious kicks"

  synonyms : brutal , cruel , fell , roughshod , savage , vicious

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