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Meanings of brutish in English

Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.

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Examples for "brutal"
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The crisis forced authorities into a brutal cycle of interest rate hikes.
Reuters
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Farm killings are usually particularly brutal, the victims isolated -easy targets.
The South African
3
This year has been especially brutal for motorists and general consumers alike.
The South African
4
I condemn this brutal act of terrorism in the strongest possible terms.
The Irish Times
5
This includes addressing the question of President Assad and his brutal regime.
The Guardian
1
When it comes to quickly moving heavy loads, brute power remains key.
Wired
2
The queen dropped in a fainting-fit; and the brute left the room.
The Peasant and the Prince
3
Multiple parties brute-forced services on Acme's networks multiple times almost every day.
Hacking: the next generation
4
Yet nearly all of them had one thing in common: brute greed.
Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen tr...
5
All the primordial brute in these men was glowing in their hearts.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
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It's a beastly night.' But Castle followed him into the cold drizzle.
The Human Factor
2
The beastly hypercar is now the most expensive new automobile ever manufactured.
The South African
3
I shall find somewhere to shelter until this beastly spell is over.
The Magicians of Caprona
4
Jungle fever, my dear fellow, jungle fever; caught in that beastly tiger-hunt.
Mr. Isaacs, A Tale of Modern India
5
Put that beastly thing in the drawer while I tell you, then.
Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
1
In a short time, I'm going to degenerate into a bestial state.
Moonburn
2
Our wills decide for us; not the bestial aim, nor the instinct.
The Original Fables of La Fontaine / Rendered into English Prose...
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They ne be not full reasonable, but they be simple and bestial.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Somehow the bestial countenance had taken on an attraction of its own.
The Blazed Trail
5
Hieronymus is likened to the Centaurs on account of his bestial passion.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
Usage of brutish in English
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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.
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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 ...
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Viking curses hang brutish and blunt on the night in my wake.
Voice of the Fire
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If I am brutish and low, brutish and low I must remain.
Sermons on National Subjects
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This was no religious rite, no placation of the brutish jungle gods.
Jerry of the Islands
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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
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They watched her, and a half-human brain laboriously evolved a brutish design.
Tarzan the Terrible
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He drags the brutish Berdych to deuce before the Czech steadies himself.
The Guardian
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He will help me to conquer this low, brutish nature of mine.
Sermons on National Subjects
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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
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Are we not brutes to call that work brutish which begets us?
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15
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