brutishness
Example Sentences
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The shtick still works though, thanks to Adkins’s singular combination of brutishness and physical grace, and thanks to the Kirby brothers’ relentless pace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
John later confessed to being embarrassed by the lyrics’ brutishness, but there’s no denying the beastly honesty inherent in the boorish speaker’s wrath.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2020
If you’re his most dedicated fans, with a teenaged mixture of sorrow, denial, vulnerability, brutishness and shocking callousness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2018
After this, the brutishness and playfulness both vanish.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
"Through all his external polish, and an increasing attention to the cultivation of good manners, a sort of brutishness appears in him, I mean brutishness in its original meaning of an uncultivated state of nature."
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
