Definition of brutish
1 : resembling, befitting, or typical of a brute or beast lived a short and brutish life as a slave
2a : strongly and grossly sensual brutish gluttonyb : showing little intelligence or sensibility a brutish lack of understanding
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Examples of brutish in a Sentence
She is married to a brutish, drunken slob.
as the months of recurrent combat dragged on, the daily existence of the soldiers became increasingly brutish
Recent Examples of brutish from the Web
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Prior to the arrival of Pocahontas in England, indigenous people of the Americas were viewed as cannibals, brutish, and non-Christian.
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Ingénue restaurants debut every week, yet their moment in the spotlight often is brutish and short.
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On the other is a bank robber (the excellent Alun Armstrong) just getting out of prison, and his two sons — one brutish (Lex Shrapnel), one sensitive (Jay Taylor).
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IMPOSING THEIR WILL Bullish and often brutish, the Ducks tore out to a 12-0-4 start that set an NHL record for most games with a point to begin a season until Chicago topped that six years later.
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Ingénue restaurants debut every week, yet their moment in the spotlight often is brutish and short.
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Trump’s presidency, like the lives of prehistoric men, could be nasty, brutish, but also short.
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Forget the low lows of 2016, a year defined by political cynicism and brutish behavior, or even these first months of 2017, which have been swallowed by dramatic revelations and relentless Washington in-fighting.
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In Wells’ classic novel, the Time Traveler encounters two human species: the child-sized and docile Eloi, and the brutish Morlocks, who raise the Eloi in order to feed upon them.
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First Known Use of brutish
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Synonym Discussion of brutish
BRUTISH Defined for English Language Learners
brutish
playDefinition of brutish for English Language Learners
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: cruel, violent, and stupid : resembling or suggesting a beast
BRUTISH Defined for Kids
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: being unfeeling and stupid
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