barbarian cruelty

barbarian cruelty

Cruel behavior toward a person or people that is especially ferocious, violent, inhuman, and uncivilized. There is no barbarian cruelty greater than violence inflicted by an adult upon a child. The area was infamous for the barbarian cruelty inflicted upon minorities and foreigners.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • sicko
  • it's feeding time at the zoo
  • live by the sword, die by the sword
  • beyond the black stump
  • cut each other's throats
  • cut one another's throats
  • man's inhumanity to man
  • stump
  • back of the black stump
  • a no-go area
References in periodicals archive
Addressing survivors and the relatives of victims, president Francois Hollande said: "Our country had never been attacked to this extent, with such destructive rage, with such barbarian cruelty.
Paris service pays tribute to victims
In an alternative history of the Greeks, ancient philosophers argue during a siege of Athens and ultimately become the victims of barbarian cruelty following a successful conquest of the city.
That absurd!