brutish
- brutal; cruel.
- gross; coarse.
- carnal; sensual.
- uncivilized.
- bestial; like an animal.
Origin of brutish
Related Words for brutish
silly, thoughtless, senseless, foolish, gratuitous, simple, naive, rudimentary, underdeveloped, unsophisticated, undeveloped, boorish, insulting, abusive, vulgar, impolite, obscene, ignorant, coarse, surlyExamples from the Web for brutish
Contemporary Examples of brutish
The story was so appalling, the attack so brutish and morally offensive, that it provoked an immediate, furious response.
Think of it as the Jersey Shore exception, where you can act like a brutish goon and the first bust is essentially a do-over.
Ray Rice Should Have Remembered His 'Kindness' Anti-Bullying WristbandMichael Daly
September 10, 2014
Sprewell also joins one of cogs in Pat Riley’s brutish ‘90s teams in racking up massive amounts of debt.
The process of Republican change is going be what we might call a two-thirds Hobbes: nasty, brutish, and long.
Yet the brutish rhetoric inevitably coming from GOP opponents will only alienate Hispanics even more than they already are.
Historical Examples of brutish
Laziness, that brutish existence which had been his dream, proved his punishment.
Therese RaquinEmile Zola
Pluto listened, and his face grew hard, brutish in its sullen hate.
The BondwomanMarah Ellis Ryan
This is a brutish Malthusianism which must be adamantly countered.
PipefulsChristopher Morley
Just because they were so unclean and brutish His holiness longed all the more to cleanse them.
True Words for Brave MenCharles Kingsley
There were no divinity, but by reason of compassion for revenges are brutish and mortal.
RaleighEdmund Gosse
brutish
- of, relating to, or resembling a brute or brutes; animal
- coarse; cruel; stupid