Modifies a noun

• cruelty: There was never any excuse for such barbaric cruelty, especially by institutions which purported to be the sole arbiters of morality.

• punishment: So the first decade ended with what today many would call a barbaric punishment.

• act: Can Islamic law or the Qur'an be used to justify barbaric acts?

• murder: Barbaric murder is barbaric murder, I don't care where you grew up.

• regime: We will not be held to blackmail by a barbaric regime.

• attack: Our hearts and our prayers go out to the British people and everyone who suffered loss in this barbaric attack.

Modifying Another Word

• so: We are so barbaric here that we execute the mentally retarded people.

• very: Our country is still very backward, still very barbaric.

• particularly: It is particularly barbaric to allow turkeys with chronic leg disorders to be hung upside down by their legs for a full six minutes.

• even: It's brutal, even barbaric, yet one can't help watching it with some sort of appreciative grin.

• truly: Interesting to note that one contributor believes that nine more years and we'll turn into a truly barbaric country.

• pretty: Beside, it's pretty barbaric really, isn't it?

Used with adjective complement

• sound: I don't want to sound barbaric, but let me tell you, it is stimulating.

• seem: While the last option seems barbaric, that's exactly what some parents do when their child's life is in danger.

• consider: In the minds of many people the concept of running for your life is a very powerful image and is considered barbaric.

• describe: The Medieval people of the Middle Ages were warlike, they have even been described as barbaric.