Brutish
adjective
Acting in an aggressive and cruel way, similar to a wild animal.
His brutish behavior towards her made everyone uncomfortable.
Often appears as...
- brutish behavior
- brutish force
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Disapproving
adjective
Lacking intelligence or cultural refinement.
The brutish man struggled to understand the complex theories.
Often appears as...
- brutish ignorance
- brutish simplicity
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Disapproving
adjective
Acting in an aggressive and cruel way, similar to a wild animal.
His brutish behavior towards her made everyone uncomfortable.
Often appears as...
- brutish behavior
- brutish force
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Lacking intelligence or cultural refinement.
The brutish man struggled to understand the complex theories.
Often appears as...
- brutish ignorance
- brutish simplicity
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Brutish describes behavior that is shockingly offensive or crude.
The crowd was appalled by the brutish display during the argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Animalistic Comparison
Brutish often compares a person's behavior to that of an untamed animal.
He had a reputation for being brutish, like a wild beast.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Aggression
Use 'brutish' to imply physical dominance or aggression.
The guards used brutish force to suppress the protest.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Brutish describes behavior that is shockingly offensive or crude.
The crowd was appalled by the brutish display during the argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Animalistic Comparison
Brutish often compares a person's behavior to that of an untamed animal.
He had a reputation for being brutish, like a wild beast.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Aggression
Use 'brutish' to imply physical dominance or aggression.
The guards used brutish force to suppress the protest.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Brutish describes behavior that is shockingly offensive or crude.
The crowd was appalled by the brutish display during the argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Animalistic Comparison
Brutish often compares a person's behavior to that of an untamed animal.
He had a reputation for being brutish, like a wild beast.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Aggression
Use 'brutish' to imply physical dominance or aggression.
The guards used brutish force to suppress the protest.
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The surprising decline...
He was the one who said that life in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Not because, he argued, humans have some primordial thirst for blood or aggressive instinct or territorial imperative,
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Eternal Adversaries:...
Truth is, lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything, whether it's a predator or otherwise. If it doesn't represent a meal, they just leave it. If it does, of course they eat it,
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Nic Marks: The Happy...
life is short and brutish there. The average life expectancy in many of these countries is only 40 years. Malaria, HIV/AIDS are killing a lot of people in these regions of the world. But now for the good news!
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Hair-Raising Hyena...
its meal but you know what truth is lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything whether it's a predator or otherwise if it doesn't represent a meal they just leave it
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The new American Dream PIPE...
You might be a failure by standards you hold dear but that the world doesn't reward. Only you can know. I know that I am not a tribute to my great-grandmother, who lived such a short and brutish life,
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Adorable Lion Moments PIPE...
brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything whether it's a predator or otherwise if it doesn't represent a meal they just leave it if it does of course they eat it but in
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Pete Alcorn on the world...
instead of the nasty, brutish past. So why does this matter? Why talk about social-economic movements that may be more than a century away? Because transitions are dangerous times.
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
his work is that evolutions legacy is not nasty brutish and short it's not a survival of the fittest world instead this cruel animal second ISM has led to a world of
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How your brain decides...
Life was nasty, brutish and a very long time ago. The selection criteria for reproductive success from that time doesn't really apply today. For example,
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Neanderthals 101 PIPE...
- Neanderthals are often depicted as brutish cave men, but science shows that our early ancestors were actually quite advanced.
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The surprising decline...
He was the one who said that life in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Not because, he argued, humans have some primordial thirst for blood or aggressive instinct or territorial imperative,
Video examples
Eternal Adversaries:...
Truth is, lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything, whether it's a predator or otherwise. If it doesn't represent a meal, they just leave it. If it does, of course they eat it,
Video examples
Nic Marks: The Happy...
life is short and brutish there. The average life expectancy in many of these countries is only 40 years. Malaria, HIV/AIDS are killing a lot of people in these regions of the world. But now for the good news!
Video examples
Hair-Raising Hyena...
its meal but you know what truth is lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything whether it's a predator or otherwise if it doesn't represent a meal they just leave it
Video examples
The new American Dream PIPE...
You might be a failure by standards you hold dear but that the world doesn't reward. Only you can know. I know that I am not a tribute to my great-grandmother, who lived such a short and brutish life,
Video examples
Adorable Lion Moments PIPE...
brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything whether it's a predator or otherwise if it doesn't represent a meal they just leave it if it does of course they eat it but in
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Pete Alcorn on the world...
instead of the nasty, brutish past. So why does this matter? Why talk about social-economic movements that may be more than a century away? Because transitions are dangerous times.
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
his work is that evolutions legacy is not nasty brutish and short it's not a survival of the fittest world instead this cruel animal second ISM has led to a world of
Video examples
How your brain decides...
Life was nasty, brutish and a very long time ago. The selection criteria for reproductive success from that time doesn't really apply today. For example,
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Neanderthals 101 PIPE...
- Neanderthals are often depicted as brutish cave men, but science shows that our early ancestors were actually quite advanced.
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Ethan Canin
American Author
John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.
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Kurt Eichenwald
American Editor
By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
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Federica Montseny
Spanish Activist
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek Writer
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
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Noah Centineo
American Actor
I think there's been this whole image of masculinity that's been out in society - of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men - like, this patriarchy.
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Heather Mac Donald
American Editor
Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.
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Charlie Chaplin
English Actor
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
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Herbert Read
English Poet
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
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Alexander Berkman
Russian Writer
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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Ethan Canin
American Author
John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.
Quote examples
Kurt Eichenwald
American Editor
By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
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Federica Montseny
Spanish Activist
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek Writer
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
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Noah Centineo
American Actor
I think there's been this whole image of masculinity that's been out in society - of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men - like, this patriarchy.
Quote examples
Heather Mac Donald
American Editor
Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.
Quote examples
Charlie Chaplin
English Actor
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Quote examples
Herbert Read
English Poet
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Quote examples
Alexander Berkman
Russian Writer
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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