barbarism
noun
a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.
barbarisms
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pluralof barbarism.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
His writings have charged the West with soulless materialism and his fellow Africans with barbarisms and corruption.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever he did pales in comparison with the barbarisms of Khomeini.
From Time Magazine Archive
A picture in coloured glass is one of the most vulgar of barbarisms, and only fit to be ranked with the gauze transparencies and chemical illuminations of the sensational stage.
From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by John Ruskin
