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Did/do they really believe they help patients with such barbarisms?

From Scientific American • May 16, 2012

A big problem for me as a children's football coach, however, is that these cliches and verbal barbarisms are all too often directed at children.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011

Whatever he did pales in comparison with the barbarisms of Khomeini.

From Time Magazine Archive

Estheticswise, it is deplorable�businesswise, dollarwise, saleswise and weathering are all barbarisms that deserve to be barred.

From Time Magazine Archive

Architecture.—I have seen no greater barbarisms anywhere than I find here.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various