brutish
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But the longed-for comeuppance of the brutish earl is as much an attraction to the series as Ms. Peckham.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
But in screenwriter Noah Pink’s melodramatic imagining of incidents both well-documented and mysterious, one can see this Hollywood veteran on a mission to loosen the shackles of his reputation and have some nasty, brutish fun.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025
Sean Duffy is fighting an American air travel future that is nasty, brutish, and severely delayed.
From Slate • May 16, 2025
Ali, a massive underdog, had cast himself as the charismatic good guy and Foreman the brutish villain.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2025
The message of the book is that the Iks have transformed themselves into an irreversibly disagreeable collection of unattached, brutish creatures, totally selfish and loveless, in response to the dismantling of their traditional culture.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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