brutish
Example Sentences
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They were all big and brutish with arms as thick as my stomach that hung down to their knees.
From Literature
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In both movies, Mr. Duvall is somehow funny and brutish at the same time.
It isn’t creedal or expansive, will likely be more brutish and narrow.
“It could make life less nasty, less brutish, and less short—and less hard.”
But the longed-for comeuppance of the brutish earl is as much an attraction to the series as Ms. Peckham.
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