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brutishness
noun as in brutality
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noun as in cruelty
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- animality
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fierceness
- heartlessness
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- truculence
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Weak matches
noun as in inhumanity
Weak match
noun as in lewdness
Strong matches
- boorishness
- carnality
- coarseness
- concupiscence
- corruptness
- debauchery
- depravity
- dirtiness
- dissoluteness
- eroticism
- erotism
- evil
- evilness
- grossness
- impurity
- incontinence
- incontinency
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- lustfulness
- obscenity
- pederasty
- pornography
- prurience
- pruriency
- ribaldry
- salaciousness
- salacity
- satyriasis
- scurrility
- smut
- smuttiness
- vileness
- villainy
- voluptuousness
- vulgarity
- wantonness
- wickedness
noun as in savagery
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Weak matches
noun as in truculence
Strong matches
- animality
- barbarism
- barbarity
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- brutality
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fierceness
- heartlessness
- inhumanity
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malice
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- persecution
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- torture
- truculency
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Weak matches
noun as in truculency
Strong matches
- animality
- barbarism
- barbarity
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- brutality
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fierceness
- heartlessness
- inhumanity
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malice
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- persecution
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- torture
- truculence
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Their brutishness throughout also lets us off Buñuel’s hook: His movies are about people whose sophistication and disposable income we should recognize, but “Here We Are,” which sometimes feels like a butterfly box, is about people we don’t dare to.
She wasn’t alone in interrupting the president with high-school-cafeteria-style brutishness, but she seemed to have dressed and prepped for the attack.
The shtick still works though, thanks to Adkins’s singular combination of brutishness and physical grace, and thanks to the Kirby brothers’ relentless pace.
Set in the one location, and driven by the script and performances, “The Outfit” feels like a play, but what could have otherwise been a minimalist potboiler is elevated by the cast, especially Rylance, who delicately carries the tale and tone, offering subtlety and nuance to contrast the brutishness of the men around him.
Alex Caruso had to leave the game because of muscle spasms in his neck, one victim of the game’s brutishness.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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