as in brute
having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal
with animalistic fury the boxer tore into his opponent
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Adjective
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Plymouth’s two-door brute was built from 1964 to 1974, and within that decade, saw three generations.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
20 June 2025 -
The events on the ground maintain the basic, brute pleasures of the initial premise.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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That was a brutal era of NBA basketball where the winning final score sometimes didn’t hit 80.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 June 2025
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Jasmin Paris, who in 2024 became one of only 20 people ever to finish the brutal 100-mile Barkley Marathons race in under 60 hours —while pumping breast milk.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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Advertisement Dawn of the Dead (1978) There's a credible case to be made that Romero's 1973 movie The Crazies, about a biological weapon that causes residents of a small town to go feral, qualifies as a zombie movie.—
James Grebey,
Time,
20 June 2025
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There are tribes of fast, feral predators that resemble the second coming of neanderthals.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Despite bestial brutality and life-limiting economic and social injustices made legal—some existing still—our foreparents clung fiercely to their humanity and envisioned ours.—
Essence,
Essence,
25 June 2025
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Fitzgerald used these wealthy, African Americans described in bestial terms, as a point of humor and as a way of showing how the place his protagonist found himself in was outlandish and preposterous to the point that Black men could be wealthy enough to hire a white driver.—
Kyra Davis Lurie
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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“Animalistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animalistic. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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