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
Frankly the scene-stealers are Jackie Earle Haley as the massive cyborg Grewishka, who brings a lip-smacking brutishness to his character, and Ed Skrein as the cyborn bounty hunter Zapan, who is deliciously odious and vain.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2019
If you’re his most dedicated fans, with a teenaged mixture of sorrow, denial, vulnerability, brutishness and shocking callousness.
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2018
On the other hand, the men of science and thinking people in the middle and laboring classes condemned the red-handed apostle of British brutishness.
From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by Griffis, William Elliot