(n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
(n.) A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
(n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
Example Sentences:
(1) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(2) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(3) Bryan Hopkins Sheffield • David Cameron says he wants to tackle segregation between schools ( Four steps to thwart creation of ‘a barbaric realm’ , 21 July).
(4) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(5) There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
(6) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(7) Alexis Tsipras, the former student radical who leads the party, has called the latest €130bn rescue plan "barbaric" and "an agreement of poverty and wretchedness".
(8) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
(9) On Thursday, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had described the massacre as a “barbaric crime”, and said it was being looked at as a hate crime.
(10) And as Kelly observed, Walker’s position is massively unpopular, and for good reason: the idea that a woman should be coerced by the state to carry a pregnancy to term even at the risk of her life is the purest barbarism.
(11) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."
(12) He warned of the “medieval barbarism” of the terrorist group Islamic State, formerly known as Isil or Isis in its efforts to set up a “terrorist state”.
(13) An hour-long chronology of barbarism that the group posted online in June featured an opening sequence copied straight from the 2009 film about the Iraq war, The Hurt Locker .
(14) None of those medical manuscripts from that collection was preserved after a barbaric setting fire on the Oriental Institute.
(15) "Barbarism," wrote Alain Finkielkraut not long ago, "is not the inheritance of our pre-history.
(16) London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said there would be more police on the streets of the capital on Tuesday after the “barbaric and sickening attack”.
(17) Anyone in any doubt about this organisation [Isis] can now see how truly repulsive it is and barbaric it is.
(18) These barbaric terrorists have lost 30% of the territory they once held in Iraq.
(19) His barbarism against his own people created an enormous vacuum.
(20) The ruling African National Congress's youth league described the video as "barbaric".
Mispronunciation
Definition:
(n.) Wrong or improper pronunciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) We should note that the vessel in question is not a boat but a ship, and amendment to Shippy McShipface would attract unfortunate mispronunciations.
(2) Finally, it was found that a mispronunciation was detected about twice as often in word-initial than in word-final position in one syllable words for both stops and nasals.
(3) In Experiment 2, young children's picture recognition, mispronunciation detection, and vocabulary monitoring performance all varied systematically with these AOA estimates and with a stimulus-type (intact-mispronounced) manipulation.
(4) ‘Troatie’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Key’s opening speech for the 2011 rugby World Cup was marred by his mispronunciation of the word “trophy”, a slip of the tongue he was perhaps unfairly reminded of for months to come.
(5) For example, mispronunciations produced by changing the voicing of a word-initial stop (e.g., "boy" to "poy") were detected about 70% of the time, while changes in voicing of a word-initial fricative (e.g., "voice" to "foice") were detected about 38% of the time.
(6) Mispronunciations produced by changing the place of articulation of a prestressed word-initial stop were most detectable of all (80% to 90% detection) for three different speakers.
(7) Mispronunciations were produced by changing a single consonant segment in a word to produce a (phonologically permissible) nonsense word.
(8) The systematic mispronunciations of young children often resemble phonological rules, and there is a temptation to treat the data as identical to adult phonological data.
(9) Which words do you mispronounce, and which common mispronunciations do you think we should resign ourselves to?
(10) The argument is clearer with Rangoon, a British mispronunciation of Yangon, which will now be our choice when referring to the former capital.
(11) The point is malapropisms and mispronunciations are fairly common.
(12) In this study, we examined the influence of various sources of constraint on spoken word recognition in a mispronunciation-detection task.
(13) Then, there's his lisp and his odd mispronunciations – in Barcelona, he kept using the term "a dollar cent", which I assumed was an example of fiscal insider jargon until I realised he actually meant "adolescent".