brutish
Example Sentences
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In both movies, Mr. Duvall is somehow funny and brutish at the same time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
While she deftly fends off his brutish attempts to express his attraction—Anna’s past has made her wary of men and skilled at putting them in their place—Anna nevertheless feels drawn to this forceful man.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 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
He quotes the philosopher Thomas Hobbes that our lives have been “nasty, brutish and short.”
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025
Harry saw Yaxley’s head turn, saw an inkling of the truth dawn in that brutish face.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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