brutish
- animal adj.
- barbarous adj.
- bestial adj.
- brutal adj.
- coarse adj.
- cruel adj.
- devilish adj.
- ferocious adj.
- fiendish adj.
- fierce adj.
- hardhearted adj.
- indelicate adj.
- mindless adj.
- ogreish adj.
- Philistine adj.
- primitive adj.
- rude adj.
- satanical adj.
- savage adj.
- uncivilized adj.
- unrefined adj.
- unthinking adj.
- beastly adv.
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Discoveries like these helped overturn the image of Neanderthals that prevailed during the Victorian era, when they were often portrayed as primitive, brutish, and less than fully human.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Their pack is still brutish, highlighted by a punishing takedown of rivals Northampton Saints last month.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Driven by rumors of Severus’ impending death, some bored soldiers proclaimed one of his brutish sons as their emperor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
He quotes the philosopher Thomas Hobbes that our lives have been “nasty, brutish and short.”
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
The man’s scowling, slightly brutish face was somehow at odds with his magnificent, sweeping robes, which were embroidered with much gold thread.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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