brute
Example Sentences
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This strategy depends on intelligence rather than brute force.
John Shaw, Magnus’s deputy, is a brute and a bully; Abel Walker, Magnus’s nephew, is a young innocent; Tom Hearn is a sailor who trained as a cleric and speaks the indigenous languages.
Previously understood as a notorious brute even by 19th-century standards, Heathcliff now exhibits signs of having earned perfect grades in today’s campus training modules.
The brute financial force of all that wealth means market fluctuations, like last week’s, matter more for consumer spending.
He was the only one toward whom the brute displayed any modicum of trust.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
