brutallyadv.
/ˈbruːtəli/ In a brutal manner.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adverb]
grimc893
sternlyc897
bremeOE
bitterlyc1000
etelichec1175
heterlya1225
felonly1303
asperlyc1314
fellc1330
fellyc1330
cruentlyc1380
beastlyc1390
unmanlyc1454
felonmentc1470
cruelly1487
inhumanly1490
unkindfully?1534
boarishlya1563
savagely1563
tiger-like1576
unhumanly1586
inhumanlike1595
inhumanely1598
immanely1612
savagiously1625
wolvishly1628
beastlilya1631
brutisha1645
truculently1654
tigerously1698
brutally1749
tigerishly1878
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adverb] > inhumanly
unmanlyc1454
inhumanly1490
unhumanly1586
inhumanlike1595
inhumanely1598
immanely1612
beastly1652
brutally1749
brutishly1807
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly > roughly or with lack of refinement
homelyc1390
rudelyc1405
greata1425
swinishly1542
clubbishly1548
carterly1556
homelily1556
brutishly1580
loutishly1580
boorishly1605
brutely1605
inurbanely1610
mechanically1613
porterly1659
coarsely1678
coarse1680
brutally1824
vulgarly1831
crudely1881
cubbishly1883
yobbishly1984
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1460 The animal and constitutional courage of a foot-soldier..is oftener improperly..exerted, but always brutally.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 283 I have always despised the brutally vulgar.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxvi. 433 He now acted still more brutally towards the Argeian priest.
1886 J. Morley Voltaire (new ed.) iii. 123 Swift is often truculent and often brutally gross.
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