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Meanings of brutish in anglès

Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.

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Usage of brutish in anglès
1
The man expressed brutish passion and jealousy; the woman, affection and fear.
The Dream Doctor
2
It is a brutish placed where people are right to be fearful.
The Irish Times
3
He was still grinning at me, looking like a great brutish ape.
For the love of mike
4
The other four were rude, brutish sailors, in flannel or red-baize shirts.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
5
The brutish man knoweth not this, neither doth the fool comprehend it.
Margaret Smith's Journal / Part 1 from Volume V of The Works of ...
6
Viking curses hang brutish and blunt on the night in my wake.
Voice of the Fire
7
If I am brutish and low, brutish and low I must remain.
Sermons on National Subjects
8
This was no religious rite, no placation of the brutish jungle gods.
Jerry of the Islands
9
It was a burly, brutish car powered by a 351-cubic-inch Ford engine.
Wired
10
This is a recipe for a poorer, nastier and more brutish Australia.
The Guardian
11
They watched her, and a half-human brain laboriously evolved a brutish design.
Tarzan the Terrible
12
He drags the brutish Berdych to deuce before the Czech steadies himself.
The Guardian
13
He will help me to conquer this low, brutish nature of mine.
Sermons on National Subjects
14
Here comes Devereaux, a brutish sex addict and master of the universe.
The Guardian
15
Laziness, that brutish existence which had been his dream, proved his punishment.
Theresa Raquin
16
Are we not brutes to call that work brutish which begets us?
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15
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