brutish
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It isn’t creedal or expansive, will likely be more brutish and narrow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
“It could make life less nasty, less brutish, and less short—and less hard.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
He quotes the philosopher Thomas Hobbes that our lives have been “nasty, brutish and short.”
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025
Ali, a massive underdog, had cast himself as the charismatic good guy and Foreman the brutish villain.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2025
An English heritage would explain his extraordinary charm and smooth manner, so unusual in brutish, clangorous Chicago.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing brutish
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