a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.

a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition.

the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language.

such a form or construction

Some people consider complected as a barbarism.

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kindness , praise

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atrocity , barbarity , brutality , catachresis , coarseness , corruption , cruelty , impropriety , inhumanity , localism , malapropism , misusage , misuse , primitive culture , provincialism , solecism , uncivilizedness , vernacularism , vernacularity , vulgarism , cant , impropriety (of speech) , outrage , savageness , savagery , savagism