What's the difference between barbarous and barber?

Barbarous


Definition:

  • (a.) Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
  • (a.) Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
  • (a.) Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
  • (a.) Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.

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".

Barber


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
  • (v. t.) To shave and dress the beard or hair of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
  • (2) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
  • (3) Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the TUC, said: "[Osborne] has loaded cuts on to benefits and welfare payments.
  • (4) That translates to 34,000 votes, more than 10 times Barber’s margin of victory.
  • (5) TUC general secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the letters, which argue against the Conservative party's position that the sheer scale of the UK deficit means public spending must be cut immediately.
  • (6) Eggs of southern corn rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber) were subjected to electromagnetic energy at 2.45 GHz in slotted waveguide applicators to determine ovicidal threshold levels.
  • (7) Sharp said he ran into Wheeler a year or two ago around the holidays, when Wheeler had taken two of his sons to the barber shop in town to get a haircut.
  • (8) TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: This chancellor has presided over one of the biggest ever squeezes on the budgets of working families.
  • (9) With the aid of a series of demonstrations (plus two formal experiments) we (1) propose a new explanation for the fact that edge line terminators in a "barber pole" display are perceived as intrinsic; (2) show that inner line terminators in a plaid pattern (i.e.
  • (10) The inhabitants of Mala Kladusa are mostly refugees from Cetingrad and Dreznik, and between 1790 and 1878 they had chances to cure more than 1200 wounded and a few thousand ill people in barber's shops in Gornja and Donja Baraka.
  • (11) "In order to do something significant, we are going to have to pass laws," said Barber, a former aide to congresswoman Gabby Giffords, shot in Tucson, Arizona, in January last year.
  • (12) Simultaneously, it is important to become familiar with the works of Erikson and Barber.
  • (13) But TUC chief Brendan Barber blamed bankers and previous Tory governments for the economic mess: "This recession is not bad luck or an inevitable swing of the pendulum.
  • (14) Two such songs, Rock Island Line and John Henry found their way on to the Barber band's 1954 album, New Orleans Joys, but it wasn't until 18 months later that they were released, under Donegan's name, as a novelty single.
  • (15) The Barber Suggestibility Scale, as a measure of hypnotic susceptibility, was administered to 130 British undergraduate students by 13 student experimenters in a 2 x 2 factorial design withe sex of the subject and the sex of the experimenter as the two variables.
  • (16) To get around this handicap, the character employs a recording of scissor-snip noises and barber’s small-talk to convince his client he’s actually doing the job he was hired for.
  • (17) Her horse Barber’s Shop won the Tattersalls & RoR Thoroughbred Ridden Show.
  • (18) Gornja and Donja Baraka are good places for hospital (barber's shop) because they are near the river Kladusnica, and in the wood.
  • (19) As news was breaking in San Francisco that Trump’s travel ban had been blocked by an appeals court, in his south Bethlehem barber shop, Joe D’Ambrosio rated Trump’s performance in office so far as “fantastic”.
  • (20) David Barber wrote on Twitter: “Strictly voters at home show their racist leanings again.