brute

He’s so isolated that his closest friend is a frenemy: Jon Bernthal’s Punisher, an equally lonely brute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

The stand-out villain of “The Furious,” a bald bruiser played by Orange County-born Brian Le, moves like an 8-bit video game brute, wobbling his ankles before he falls down and goes boom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

It was not just about brute force, though, there were deft touches too.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

This strategy depends on intelligence rather than brute force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Merry himself slew the leader, a great squint-eyed brute like a huge orc.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Except from behind the windshield, where he views the world as teeming with schemers and brutes, acting on all manner of Machiavellian impulses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

But it made a few of the par 4s, such as the 490-yard first and the 465-yard fifth, play like brutes.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

Then ChatGPT came online, and suddenly the fear was of something smarter rather than stronger — malevolent bots rather than metallic brutes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

His uncompromising hostility toward revolutionaries inspired Thomas Paine to remark in 1776, “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.”

From National Geographic ● Jul. 3, 2023

‘Big Friendly Giant,’ she said, ‘last night those man-eating brutes came to England. Can you remember where they went the night before?’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

The radiant hands, the swift, delighted limbs Move as in pools of dream the dancer swims, Holding our bruted sense to fragrance bound.

From Nights in London by Thomas Burke

Certayne dayes after that the Lorde Antonio had bruted the maryage of his daughter, many Gentlemen were suters, so wel for the excellency of hir Beauty, as for hir great Rychesse and reuenue.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

Such was the valiancie of King Richard shown in manfull constraining of the citie, that his praise was greatly bruted both amongst the Christians and also the Saracens.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

The like forged inuencion haue thei wrote, of the migh- The battaill of Troie .x. yeres for a herlotte. tie and terrible battaill bruted of Troie, for a beautifull har- lot susteined ten yeres.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

The wisedome of the Duke also was wonderfully extolled and commended of all men, the fame whereof was increased and bruted throughout the Region of Italy.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

Stones of fancy shape, such as square, or cushion shape, have to be formed in part by hand rubbing or "bruting" as it is called.

From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade