brutal
adjective
savage; cruel; inhuman.
brutally
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a word derived from
brutal.
Example Sentences
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It’s about being brutally honest about what you want, making smart trade-offs and cutting costs for the things you don’t care about so you can spend on what you actually love.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
It’s a brutally honest tune where I name many of the things that occupy my mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Mr. Westrate makes for a cleanly spoken and brutally cool Iago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But after combing through the info we do have, Slate’s Heather Schwedel renders this brutally honest verdict.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
And each man had made brutally harsh assessments of the other, rooted in their quite different convictions about the proper course the American Revolution should take.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
