brute
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“Mutiny” convinced me that he’s content to be a dull brute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
If you spot a guy swaggering like a brute from Eternia on the sidewalk, masked or not, he probably thinks he’s more awesome than everyone else does.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
In the secular realm, though, brute force measures to address the gap are getting attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It was not just about brute force, though, there were deft touches too.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Even in chains, Mormont looked dangerous, a hulking brute with big, thick arms and sloped shoulders.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
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
Both figures exist within the same body; both are brutes, in their way.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023
Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
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
Moreover ye see what opinion is like to be conceiued of you, when it shalbe bruted that for the Marquize feare, you haue maried the Mantuan Lord.
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 newes of the taking of king Richard was anon bruted and blowne ouer all Germanie, wherevpon the emperour Henrie the sixt, the sonne of 1193.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed
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
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