The great barbarism has swept through this place, the modern barbarism from beyond the Rhine, a thousand times worse than the barbarism of old times, because it is doltishly, outrageously self-satisfied, and consequently fundamental, incurable, and final-destined, if it be not crushed, to overwhelm the world in a sinister night of eclipse.
"War"
Pierre Loti
In the transport of his indignation, he resolved not doltishly to be thus outwitted to his ruin.
"Harold, Complete The Last Of The Saxon Kings"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton