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.
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Discoveries like these helped overturn the image of Neanderthals that prevailed during the Victorian era, when they were often portrayed as primitive, brutish, and less than fully human.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Greengrass surrounds Garfield with actors who deliver bigger performances, like Jarvis as the brutish but shrewd Tyler, and Bell as the fervent Ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Their pack is still brutish, highlighted by a punishing takedown of rivals Northampton Saints last month.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
“It could make life less nasty, less brutish, and less short—and less hard.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Scientists used to quote a phrase of Thomas Hobbes’s in order to characterize the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers as “nasty, brutish, and short.”
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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