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
John later confessed to being embarrassed by the lyrics' brutishness, but there's no denying the beastly honesty inherent in the boorish speaker's wrath.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2020
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
After this, the brutishness and playfulness both vanish.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
On the other hand, the men of science and thinking people in the middle and laboring classes condemned the red-handed apostle of British brutishness.
From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by William Elliot Griffis
