- a barbarous crime.
- a ferocious beating.
- a furious battle.
- a pack of feral dogs.
- a savage people.
- a savage slap.
- barbarian invaders.
- barbaric practices.
- brutal beatings.
- cruel tortures.
- fierce fighting.
- fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient.
- Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks.
- The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage.
- The press savaged the new President.
- vicious kicks.
- wild tribes.