brutish
adjective
brutal; cruel.
brutishness
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a word derived from
brutish.
Example Sentences
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The shtick still works though, thanks to Adkins’s singular combination of brutishness and physical grace, and thanks to the Kirby brothers’ relentless pace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
And we rely on your incredible support to help the Guardian steer a course between facts and lies, civility and brutishness, rhetoric and reason, and science and ignorance.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2019
Frankly the scene-stealers are Jackie Earle Haley as the massive cyborg Grewishka, who brings a lip-smacking brutishness to his character, and Ed Skrein as the cyborn bounty hunter Zapan, who is deliciously odious and vain.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2019
After this, the brutishness and playfulness both vanish.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
Oh, the wide world, Degraded by ignoble brutishness, Could yield no tendernesses infinite For we who feed on rapture.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
