Thesaurus / brutish
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From archaeological reconstructions of Neanderthals as stooped, hairy and brutish, to “cavemen” movies, our ancient ancestors got bad press.
SIX RECENT DISCOVERIES THAT HAVE CHANGED HOW WE THINK ABOUT HUMAN ORIGINSPENNY SPIKINSOCTOBER 9, 2022SINGULARITY HUB Perhaps her sensibility toward comics as a woman who wasn’t always the primary target for the brash masculinity of the ’90s had mellowed her to some of the brutish standards of the period.
‘Y: THE LAST MAN’ IS A NEW BLOCKBUSTER TV SERIES CHALLENGING GENDER IDENTITYTIRHAKAH LOVESEPTEMBER 10, 2021THE DAILY BEASTCourage, that a poor private carrying a musket has to spare of; that does not fail a weasel or a rat; that is a brutish faculty?
THE POCKET R.L.S.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA brutish Indian; a favorite expression of the Limeños when speaking of the Indians, who certainly do not merit the compliment.
TRAVELS IN PERU, ON THE COAST, IN THE SIERRA, ACROSS THE CORDILLERAS AND THE ANDES, INTO THE PRIMEVAL FORESTSJ. J. VON TSCHUDII do grace him as much as I may, for I find him marvellous greedy to do anything to recover the conceit of his brutish offence.'
SIR WALTER RALEGHWILLIAM STEBBINGThese two children were full of vices—the little girl was untruthful, the boy brutish.
BOUVARD AND PCUCHET, PART 2GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAre there gods, yet suffer Such innocent sweetness to be made the spoil Of brutish violence?
THE PLAYS OF PHILIP MASSINGERPHILIP MASSINGERMy Lords, what should we say of such brutish ignorance, and such shocking confusion of ideas?
THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. XI. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKEBut then Agur candidly admitted that he was more brutish than any man, and had not the understanding of a man.
SOMEHOW GOODWILLIAM DE MORGANIt was scant of brow, brutish, 285 supercunning, and the swarthy body that rose above the black hip-cloth matched the face.
ONCE TO EVERY MANLARRY EVANSWORDS RELATED TO BRUTISH
- blundering
- brutish
- feckless
- foolish
- heedless
- impulsive
- inadvertent
- inconsiderate
- indelicate
- insensitive
- instinctive
- mechanical
- napping
- negligent
- oblivious
- outrageous
- rash
- rude
- selfish
- senseless
- tactless
- thoughtless
- uncaring
- unconscious
- undiplomatic
- unheeding
- unintended
- unmeant
- unmindful
- unpremeditated
- unreasoning
- untactful
- unwise
- vacant
- witless
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