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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (1)

1. in an inhumane manner;
- Example: "she treated her husband bestially"
[syn: bestially, brutishly, in a beastly manner]


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. [1913 Webster] O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. --Leigh Hunt. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Syn: Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial. [1913 Webster] -- Bru"tish*ly, adv. -- Bru"tish*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brutishly adv 1: in an inhumane manner; "she treated her husband bestially" [syn: bestially, brutishly, in a beastly manner]