barbarouslyadv.
/ˈbɑːbərəsli/ In a barbarous manner:
a. as to speech.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [adverb] > in a corrupted way
corruptlya1387
barbarously1531
corruptedly1610
corruptively1655
impurely1813
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb]
barbarously1531
rustically1548
crabbedly1561
scabrouslya1572
gracelesslya1586
unelegantly1603
uneloquently1611
crudely1638
inelegantly1698
ineloquently1828
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Fvii Whiche..speake the moste barberously that they can imagine.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 209 The foulest vice in language is to speake barbarously.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 63 New Languages..barbarously mingled with the Latine.
1855 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. (ed. 4) Βαρβαροϕωνέω, to speak Greek barbarously.
b. as to social or intellectual condition, culture, or art.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adverb]
barbarously1552
uncivilly1577
wildly1593
brutisha1645
vandalously1890
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Barbarouslye or rudelye.
1657 W. Davenant First Days Entertainm. Rutland-House (1673) 348 Loving so barbarously the uncleanly ease of his own life.
1751 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 28 In the afternoon, went to hear ‘Samson’ murdered most barbarously.
c. as to cruelty.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adverb] > barbarously
Saracenly1596
barbarously1611
Turkishly1611
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Macc. xv. 2 O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously . View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 483. ¶2 Her Mother used one of her Nieces very barbarously.
1800 S. T. Coleridge To Wedgwood Jan. It is most barbarously cold.
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