brutish
- animal adj.
- barbarous adj.
- bestial adj.
- brutal adj.
- coarse adj.
- cruel adj.
- devilish adj.
- ferocious adj.
- fiendish adj.
- fierce adj.
- hardhearted adj.
- indelicate adj.
- mindless adj.
- ogreish adj.
- Philistine adj.
- primitive adj.
- rude adj.
- satanical adj.
- savage adj.
- uncivilized adj.
- unrefined adj.
- unthinking adj.
- beastly adv.
Example Sentences
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Their pack is still brutish, highlighted by a punishing takedown of rivals Northampton Saints last month.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Driven by rumors of Severus’ impending death, some bored soldiers proclaimed one of his brutish sons as their emperor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
But the longed-for comeuppance of the brutish earl is as much an attraction to the series as Ms. Peckham.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
This year, it became apparent to more shoppers that Prime Day is less a showcase of Amazon deals than a brutish exhibition of the platform’s unmatched power.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025
If the members of a particular “society” never behave cooperatively, their lives are likely to be, in Thomas Hobbes’s words, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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