brutishness
Example Sentences
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The shtick still works though, thanks to Adkins’s singular combination of brutishness and physical grace, and thanks to the Kirby brothers’ relentless pace.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022
The other, once glorious, has descended into brutishness and superstition.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2020
The films, based on Ian Fleming’s novels, focused on a British spook who was impudent and resourceful, a wizard with women and weaponry, and impeccably dressed but capable of back-alley brutishness.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2020
John later confessed to being embarrassed by the lyrics’ brutishness, but there’s no denying the beastly honesty inherent in the boorish speaker’s wrath.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020
Nevertheless, human passion would cast these behind, were not man, like horses astray in their brutishness, held to the road by bit and rein.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
