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Meanings of brute in English
Synonyms
Examples for "brutal"
Examples for "brutal"
1
The crisis forced authorities into a brutal cycle of interest rate hikes.
2
Farm killings are usually particularly brutal, the victims isolated -easy targets.
3
This year has been especially brutal for motorists and general consumers alike.
4
I condemn this brutal act of terrorism in the strongest possible terms.
5
This includes addressing the question of President Assad and his brutal regime.
1
It's a beastly night.' But Castle followed him into the cold drizzle.
2
The beastly hypercar is now the most expensive new automobile ever manufactured.
3
I shall find somewhere to shelter until this beastly spell is over.
4
Jungle fever, my dear fellow, jungle fever; caught in that beastly tiger-hunt.
5
Put that beastly thing in the drawer while I tell you, then.
1
The man expressed brutish passion and jealousy; the woman, affection and fear.
2
It is a brutish placed where people are right to be fearful.
3
He was still grinning at me, looking like a great brutish ape.
4
The other four were rude, brutish sailors, in flannel or red-baize shirts.
5
The brutish man knoweth not this, neither doth the fool comprehend it.
1
In a short time, I'm going to degenerate into a bestial state.
2
Our wills decide for us; not the bestial aim, nor the instinct.
3
They ne be not full reasonable, but they be simple and bestial.
4
Somehow the bestial countenance had taken on an attraction of its own.
5
Hieronymus is likened to the Centaurs on account of his bestial passion.
Usage of brute in English
1
When it comes to quickly moving heavy loads, brute power remains key.
2
The queen dropped in a fainting-fit; and the brute left the room.
3
Multiple parties brute-forced services on Acme's networks multiple times almost every day.
4
Yet nearly all of them had one thing in common: brute greed.
5
All the primordial brute in these men was glowing in their hearts.
6
It was a brute-force solution, but it could fix so many problems.
7
He may have missed it in the infernal howling of the brute.
8
The brute obeys law unwittingly in the sustenance and transmission of life.
9
They were a different kind of people; more of the brute order.
10
Some brute in the crowd had sent it with all his force.
11
The burial of a slave in Alabama is that of a brute.
12
Let us waste no more time with pointless talk and brute confrontation.
13
The only way to keep back brute panic was not to think.
14
Meanwhile that brute of a puppy in the basement had been developing.
15
The huge brute was soon ripped up in a very unceremonious fashion.
16
The directing intelligence withdrawn, he sank to the level of the brute.
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Brute across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common