It also means uncivilized, uncouth, barbarous, savage. It was not the supposedly "uncivilized" Indian tribes who were "barbarous", but the conquering Spaniards. He is not a perfidious or barbarous or fantastically fiendish foe. In 1967, a legislative committee investigated allegations of "cruel, inhuman, and barbarous treatment". He mandated that the New Man be brutal, barbarous, and abandon his romanticism. Popular vengeance led to barbarous acts against some of these officials. Mainstream Europeans regarded the Irish as relatively barbarous and backward. Terrorists guilty of committing this barbarous act must be severely punished. But the peasants, there they are nearly barbarous. Many were, in the Arabian mountain, enslaved by the barbarous 'sarkenoi'. Another common motif was to accuse Britain of attacking in a barbarous manner. Pope Adrian called the Irish a "rude and barbarous" nation. The stories of barbarous acts against accused witches scared Baum. They called the earlier interpretation "a relic of days more barbarous than ours". One of the planets the Tyannans spored, Baluur, developed in a more barbarous manner.