Careful Words

barbarous (adj.)

Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 550.

Th' adorning thee with so much art

Is but a barb'rous skill;

'T is like the pois'ning of a dart,

Too apt before to kill.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): The Waiting Maid.