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When his beer arrived, he opened his mouth widely and used both hands to brutishly remove his aligners.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s draft opinion on abortion, on the other hand, is so brutishly written that it could conceivably let a state criminalize a woman just for exercising too strenuously while pregnant.

Holmes was brutishly walloping a raw ham rump with a cricket bat, to test a theory about the bruising of flesh in homicidal attacks.

The word means “drowned land” in Gaelic; back in the 14th century, a local laird known as The Wolf of Badenoch brutishly held sway over the district.

On Friday night, he became, arguably, the most brutishly powerful Republican of all time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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