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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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
It isn’t creedal or expansive, will likely be more brutish and narrow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Sean Duffy is fighting an American air travel future that is nasty, brutish, and severely delayed.
From Slate ● May 16, 2025
He comes from a mangled life and he’s very cunning and very brutish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 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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