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[syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Brutish \Bru"tish\, a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel,
gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
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O, let all provocation
Take every brutish shape it can devise. --Leigh Hunt.
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Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain
that he would seek to take the rank and density of the
brute. --I. Taylor.
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Syn: Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal;
barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual;
bestial.
[1913 Webster] -- Bru"tish*ly, adv. --
Bru"tish*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
brutish
adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a
dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
[syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish,
brutal]