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[ broo-tish ] / ˈbru tɪʃ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR brutish ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivebrutal; cruel. gross; coarse. carnal; sensual. uncivilized. bestial; like an animal. Origin of brutishFirst recorded in 1485–95; brute1 + -ish1 OTHER WORDS FROM brutishbrut·ish·ly, adverbbrut·ish·ness, nounWords nearby brutishbrutalize, brute, brute force, brute-force attack, brutify, brutish, Brutus, Brutus is an honorable man, brux, Bruxelles, bruxism Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for brutishThe story was so appalling, the attack so brutish and morally offensive, that it provoked an immediate, furious response. Why It Was Right to Question Rolling Stone’s U-VA Rape Story|Michael Moynihan|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST 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 Wristband|Michael Daly|September 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST Sprewell also joins one of cogs in Pat Riley’s brutish ‘90s teams in racking up massive amounts of debt. Guns, Blow Jobs, and Choke Holds: a History of the New York Knicks|Robert Silverman|February 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST The process of Republican change is going be what we might call a two-thirds Hobbes: nasty, brutish, and long. The GOP’s Inept Autopsy|Michael Tomasky|March 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Yet the brutish rhetoric inevitably coming from GOP opponents will only alienate Hispanics even more than they already are. Obama Realigns, the GOP Declines: The New Political Paradigm|Robert Shrum|February 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST No stirring up of dust and ashes is excusable, and none but brutish minds delight in mud-pies mixed with blood. Oscar Wilde|Arthur Ransome Say nothing to them, and they will think on nothing except what flatters either their brutish passions or vanity. The Existence of God|Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon I do grace him as much as I may, for I find him marvellous greedy to do anything to recover the conceit of his brutish offence.' Sir Walter Ralegh|William Stebbing Courage, that a poor private carrying a musket has to spare of; that does not fail a weasel or a rat; that is a brutish faculty? The Pocket R.L.S.|Robert Louis Stevenson She kicked and scratched and struggled in vain, to be quickly vanquished by a brutish blow. Mlle. Fouchette|Charles Theodore Murray
British Dictionary definitions for brutish
adjectiveof, relating to, or resembling a brute or brutes; animal coarse; cruel; stupid Derived forms of brutishbrutishly, adverbbrutishness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to brutishsilly, thoughtless, senseless, foolish, gratuitous, simple, naive, rudimentary, underdeveloped, unsophisticated, undeveloped, boorish, insulting, abusive, vulgar, impolite, obscene, ignorant, coarse, surly |